...opportunities. Aldo Leopold added a bit of interesting philosophy to the concept of preservation when he said: "Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted, until progress begins to do away with them. Now we face the question of whether a still higher standard of living...

...debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity." — Aldous Huxley "We face the question whether a still higher "standard...worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free." — Aldo Leopold "When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." — Confucius "Fate often puts all...

...measure upon the way of life adopted by humans. As Leopold concluded, "we face the question whether a higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free."38 During the 1970s many others were asking the same question. Could the ecological web of life...