The deepest recreation is the hands-on husbandry only landholders feel

Evidence

There is, lastly, a fifth component: the sense of husbandry. It is unknown to the outdoorsman who works for conservation with his vote rather than with his hands. It is realized only when some art of management is applied to land by some person of perception. That is to say, its enjoyment is reserved for landholders too poor to buy their sport, and land administrators with a sharp eye and an ecological mind. The tourist who buys access to his scenery misses it altogether; so also the sportsman who hires the state, or some underling, to be his gamekeeper. The Government, which essays to substitute public for private operation of recreational lands, is unwittingly giving away to its field officers a large share of what it seeks to offer its citizens. We foresters and game managers might logically pay for, instead of being paid for, our job as husbandmen of wild crops. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 611

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘sense of husbandry’ as a distinct fifth component of recreation realized only through hands-on management.
• XREF: connects to: Recreation policy should build human perception rather than build roads — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 607