Green Fire | movie | 2011 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the twentieth-century. He is the father of the national | dG1fSUdJSzI0TjdhcFE

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00:00 We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

00:07 We were out here to conquer this country, not to make it better.

00:24 Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away

00:29 with them.

00:31 At the time where most of the country was abusing the land, Otto Leopold was saying,

00:37 "Hold on! We need to understand that our community is less without that."

00:44 When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and

00:52 respect.

00:59 It has taken, you know, 40, 50 or 60 years for us to catch up with the very clear meanings

01:11 of the words that he was writing, in some cases in the late 20s, the 30s and the 40s.

01:19 My wife got a book about Leopold. I thought, "Boy, if I'd just read this 30 years ago,

01:26 I could have saved a lot of time and effort."

01:29 Where a white pine and a red birch are crowding each other.

01:33 And the amazing thing is, after all these years, the interest in Leopold just continues

01:37 to grow. He's still read as a contemporary because his ideas are still not only so current,

01:42 they're still so far ahead of us.

01:45 We have lost sight of so much magic in the land, spiritual values. It is time to construct

01:52 or reconstruct an ethic.

01:56 I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end

02:03 result of a life journey.

02:05 Otto Leopold.

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