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Our Vision

The vision of the Rim Country Land Institute is to engage the human community in discovery and appreciation of our essential connection with Earth - its complex biosphere of interrelated life.

Aldo Leopold clearly articulated the challenge of the Institute's guiding purpose in 1948:
"The problem is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land, among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education." [A Sand County Almanac, Part III: "Natural History"]

A community of learners dedicated to solving this fundamental problem, the Institute rests on four essential tenets:

To realize that life on earth is governed by the principles of difference, uniqueness and interconnectedness.

To recognize that the land itself is teacher and a primary source of wisdom.

To connect spiritually with land by immersing ourselves in study of our interdependence with it.

To discover our mutual relationship with land and its natural rhythms.

In its ongoing educational mission, the Rim Country Land Institute is committed to the urgent challenge of answering one abiding question: how may humanity best affirm, reconstruct and sustain the symbiotic relationship between ourselves and this fragile planet? The challenge is to balance the wisdom of the land with our own.