1. I believe that when Leopold writes "only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf," the meaning of this sentence is that the mountain has been in taht place many many years, seeing everything that is attached to her, live and die, so beside the meaning that each individual can give to the howl of the wolf, the mountain knows the objective meaning. It doesnt mean to kill, it doesnt mean to scare, or to bring attention, it is something bigger than that, something somehow including all this but is something that scapes all of us and is only known by the mountain.
2. "In wildness is the salvation of the world" this idea by Henry David Thoreau is repetaed by Leopold on his essay. I think that Leopold might mean by sitting this, just to reinforce the idea that everything has a balance, that wildness that takes the animal to hunt, the deer to run from the wolf, the deer to eat the grass, the hunter to look up for the wolf, etc. all if this is just a set of roles that if is kept with balance, everything will be ok.
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