Recreation policy should build human perception rather than build roads

Evidence

To promote perception is the only truly creative part of recreational engineering. … The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 607

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Living without wild things divides humans into two fundamental kinds — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 2; A managed woodland yields an educational harvest that owners often fail to reap — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 265; Perception is the one recreation that does not consume its resource — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 606 (+3 more)