People grieve the loss only of species they have come to know personally

Evidence

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. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 177

Categorization

• XREF: ‘We grieve only for what we know’ is the affective core that ties this book’s land ethic to the environmental-justice and listening threads across the reader’s courses. — connects to: Individual plant preferences are transmitted across generations through family memory — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 262; Emotional survival is bound up with non-human others, not only with people

Broader Connections

• Emotional survival is bound up with non-human others, not only with people #expands (0.85)