But I suspect the notion that humans and nature cannot coexist in the same place at the same time, that notion was so deeply embedded in the culture of Aldo Leopold 's day-- unfortunately, it's still embedded in our own culture-- that he may not have recognized it as an option.Well, what I want to argue today is that, not only is living with nature an option, it is now the only viable option
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. Leopold was obsessed with Egon Schiele.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. And Leopold used less than upstanding methods to acquire a lot of works.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. The Leopold museum ended up paying our family $19 million for the painting, which was the market price at the time.
And so for the second time, the mathematical community attacked and ostracized Cantor. Leading the charge was Leopold Kronecker, the head of mathematics at the University of Berlin. Kronecker completely dismissed Cantor's work, labeling him a scientific charlatan and a corrupter of the youth.
There have been visionaries through the ages who have recognized that we humans needed to work on our relationship with Planet Earth, and Aldo Leopold was one of the most eloquent. He wrote extensively in the first half of the 1900s.
And I think that just from a sheer scientific standpoint, I would say marine pollution, and sewage, and plastic as part of that, has got to be up there. And Aldo Leopold said that we love-- we grow to love what we understand. And by engaging California-- I mean, I'm not from California.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. Officials at the Leopold museum were livid.
But no one checked back then, and I was able to interview these very important people and learn something and allow them And basically what Leopold was doing was creating this illicit business in slavery and just making a fortune.
country so uh they' grown pretty fast and they were a decent sized Brewery now the other one we mention Olympia was uh started by Leopold Schmidt um nice German man he started in Montana he opened a a brewery there he was involved in politics and he had to go to Olympia at one point to uh to discuss something with the
that she still has. And this man-- Leopoldo is his name-- becomes my stepfather. And I talk more about this in "Free Spirit", but the next four years of our lives are spent surviving and ultimately overcoming Leopoldo.
It was the first country to be created after the Berlin Conference. It was created by King Leopold of Belgium who had felt like his job as king did not come with enough responsibilities. He was essentially bored.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. By this time, Leopold had amassed the largest collection of works by Egon Schiele in the world.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. And they would get to display it again in the Leopold museum.
excuse me the um the series is in development right now so uh our our main producer for the TV series is a great guy named Leopoldo goo and he is uh out there taking meetings right now pitching um we're having some we've had a lot of interest especially since the book came
They developed a long humped nose with an overhanging tip, a droopy, bulbous lower lip. So one of the Habsburg kings, Leopold I, in the second half of the 17th century, was pretty unkindly nicknamed in Vienna, which you could translate as "twat face" or "vagina face." He was remarked upon by his sort of bulbous lower lip.
We habitually take more from the Earth than it has to offer, completely wrecking an area, and going to another area, doing the same thing. Not sustainable behavior. But Aldo Leopold had a lot of faith in humans. He believed we could develop what he called a land ethic.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. In 1953, a young Viennese ophthalmologist named Rudolf Leopold sought her out in her London gallery.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. So it helped to raise Schiele's reputation as well as the worth of the Leopold collection.
AND these guys are imminent beyond belief. The first is Dr. Ray Leopold , Air Force officer expert, expert on maneuver warfare, fighter plane tactics, tactics that he developed into tactics for the business world, formerly a teacher at the Air Force Academy, senior air staff at the Pentagon, a pure scientist
stopped eating all the trees; the beavers came back trees, started damming creeks and the biodiversity of those parts of Yellowstone jumped immediately. One of the great inspirers for me and other greens is Aldo Leopold . He basically inspired people to become ecosystem engineers by restoring natural systems and then he showed how quickly he's done it with his own shack in Wisconsin in Sand County where he took a really frapped out farm, planted a bunch of trees and lo a few years later the forest was back.
that those are not of as much import. For example, in the book when you talk about how King Leopold effectively built and sustained a machine that resulted in the genocide of 10 million people in the DRC.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. In fact, he has his own museum in Vienna called the Leopold museum.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. Our family decided the best thing to do was to talk to the press about how Leopold acquired works of art in his collection.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. So we spoke to a reporter from "The New York Times." And she ended up writing this big article about how Leopold used dastardly methods
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. And this was what he painted as a companion piece to "Portrait of Wally." Those two are now hanging together in the Leopold museum.
of exposures made by lightning. And Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Lightning Fields" project deliberately harks back to earlier technological experimentation, like Etienne Leopold Trouvelot's studies of sparks.
But no one checked back then, and I was able to interview these very important people and learn something and allow them See, over in Belgium there was this mad King called King Leopold II.
But no one checked back then, and I was able to interview these very important people and learn something and allow them And then she realized, in order to get the word out-- because Leopold was fighting her left and right in the papers,
And there is Yolanda Gonzalez, the businessperson. And that was taught to me by my dad, Leopoldo Gonzalez, who was a great businessman. So I think if you can separate yourself from the creative, and then to the business of this beautiful painting
It's totally plausible. There's a question of the horizon. Does it happen in three years or five years, like the AI 2027 people, or Leopold Aschenbrenner's situational awareness? Or does it happen in 25 years?
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. would be returned. Unfortunately, "Wally" was exempt from that, because the Leopold museum was not fully a state museum.
This is for "Eccentric Orbits-- The Iridium Story" written by John Bloom to my left. To my right, we have actually two distinguished guests as well with us, Dan Colussy and Ray Leopold , both very distinguished in their fields. I will let John handle their own intros.
Anyway, all of this is in the book. But I went on this journey that took me all over the country, interviewing some of the thousands of people who were involved with Iridium, including Ray Leopold , who by the way, lives in northwest Montana, pretty much the hardest place to get to in the whole continental United States.
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. And do you have any questions for me, or for Dan Colussy, or for Ray Leopold ?
And it was the breadth of human nature that allowed readers to find common ground and points of identification with Madame Bovary, Leopold
And this man-- Leopoldo is his name-- becomes my stepfather. And I talk more about this in "Free Spirit", but the next four years of our lives are spent surviving and ultimately overcoming Leopoldo. As part of this, I decide I got to go to school.