Aldo Leopold

October 11, 2026Pondscape

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

Near the end of a lot of the games on my shelf, I look down at the board and realize I've stripped it bare. The forest tiles are flipped to clearings and the quarry is empty. The meadow that held sheep cubes for the first hour…