{"id":1298,"date":"2012-11-15T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2012-11-15T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:53:03","slug":"conservation-is-a-state-of-harmony-between-men-and-land-the-land-is-one-organism-the-last-word-in-ignorance-is-the-man-who-says-of-an-animal-or-plant-what-good-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. &hellip; The land is one organism. &hellip; The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: &lsquo;What good is it?&rsquo; &rdquo;&ndash;Aldo Leopold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/11\/15\/opinion\/slaughter-of-coyotes-an-abomination-against-nature.html\">ABQJournal Online \u00c2\u00bb Slaughter of Coyotes an Abomination Against Nature<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/author\/admin\">Pete McCloskey And Helen McCloskey \/ Madrid residents <\/a>on Thu, Nov 15, 2012<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Leopold noted toward the end of his life: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over or in the earth. Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish the right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges, you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat good is it?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/11\/15\/opinion\/slaughter-of-coyotes-an-abomination-against-nature.html\">ABQJournal Online \u00c2\u00bb Slaughter of Coyotes an Abomination Against Nature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQJournal Online \u00c2\u00bb Slaughter of Coyotes an Abomination Against Nature By Pete McCloskey And Helen McCloskey \/ Madrid residents on Thu, Nov 15, 2012 As Leopold noted toward the end of his life: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over or in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. &hellip; The land is one organism. &hellip; The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: &lsquo;What good is it?&rsquo; &rdquo;&ndash;Aldo Leopold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-updates","category-wildlands","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}