Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction

Can we, Leopold asked, accept that Earth does not exist for our comfort? Can we accept a world that depends on predators and other forces we cannot control? Can we accept our fear? For Leopold, these questions pointed in the same direction: can we learn to think like a mountain?

100 years since and I’d suggest an emphatic no