Fundamentos...

É frequente repetir-se a ideia de que não há conservação sem civilização e de que sem a manutenção de actividades agrícolas e silvo-pastorís se perderiam os valores naturais que compõem a nossa paisagem.

Este seria tema de longa conversa – talvez para outro dia – mas por agora deixo aqui uns pensamentos de Aldo Leopold:

"Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"

"Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel... I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old".