Summary of “Thinking Like a Mountain” Aldo Leopold's essay, “Thinking Like a Mountain” highlights an important question within the ecosystem regarding the importance of a single organism. Leopold attempts to help the reader understand the importance of all animals in the ecosystem by allowing a wolf, a deer and a mountain to represent the ecosystem and how changes between them cause harmful effects on each other. others. Leopold recounts killing a wolf and seeing a "fierce green fire" die in its eyes, which became a transformative moment in his life, leading him to rethink the beliefs he had grown up with. By linking the death of the wolf to the health of the mountain, he had the idea of ​​promoting the idea that all predators matter to the ecosystem. He believed then that all native organisms are essential to the health of the earth, that if a change occurs in one part of the circuit many parts will have to adapt and if something is removed the consequences can be detrimental. The essay puts forward the idea that all living things on earth have a purpose and that everything is interdependent on each other. Each organism has a role to play in the ecosystem and each has effects on the others. To explain this idea, the leopard begins by describing the howl of the wolf: “A deep chested howl resonates from rimrock to rimrock, rushes down the mountain and melts into the deep darkness of the night. It is an explosion of wild sadness and defiance and contempt for all the adversities of the world. Every living being (and perhaps many dead ones too) responds to this call. Leopold explains how the wolf howl means different things to different organisms in the ecosystem. The howl is not simply a cry of the wolf, it generates...... middle of paper ... which at that time was not very visible. He took steps to educate himself so that he could help others understand. In conclusion, Leopold explains the importance of the wolf and its effects on others. In doing so, it is clear that each part of the ecosystem plays an important role and that the effects each organism has on each other are grandiose. Leopold personifies the mountain so that people can think objectively about the environment and act in a way that does not harm it. Humans have become estranged from the rest of nature and Leopold wants everyone to understand that we are all part of one big interconnected system. Leopold does not want us to parallel his youthful actions by continuing to be ignorant towards the environment and by writing this essay he is able to help educate people.