*I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.* [*Aldo Leopold*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43828.Aldo_Leopold?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) February 2, 1941: On this day, American writer Aldo Leopold caught a chickadee with the band number 65287 for the fourth year in a row on his family’s farm. He let it go again—and then started writing one of his first nature essays as a tribute to the tiny creature.