The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless — to us — if we know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of chow mein. We grieve only for what we know. The erasure of Silphium from western Dane County is no cause for grief if one knows it only as a name in a botany book.


July: Prairie Birthday, p. 48. - A Sand County Almanac, 1949 - "May: Back from the Argentine," "June: The Alder Fork," "July: Great Possessions," and "July: Prairie Birthday"

Aldo Leopold Quotes

The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless — to us — if we know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us...

The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless — to us — if we know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us...

The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless — to us — if we know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us...

The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless — to us — if we know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us...