BIOSPHERE 2000 Protecting Our Global Environment

• Main Author: Kaufman, Donald G
• Other Authors: Franz, Cecilia
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY. Harper-Collins 1993
• Subjects: Human ecology; Environmental protection; Conservation of natural resources
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 "One of the marvels of early Wisconsin," wrote the ecologist Aldo Leopold, "was the Round River, a river that flowed into itself, and thus sped around and around in a never-ending circuit. Paul Bunyan discovered it, and the Bunyan saga tells how he floated many a log down its restless waters. "No one has suspected Paul of speaking in para bles, yet in this instance he did. not only had a round river, Wisconsin is one. The current is the stream of energy which flows out of the soil into plants, thence into animals, thence back into the soil in a never-ending circuit of life." Implicit in Leopold's writing is the idea that the entire earth is also a round river. And we-the humans who live on the river-are bound up with it, part and parcel of the environment that we affect and are affected by.