ONSERVATION is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth. Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Our Public Lands - Page 21956Full view - About this book
| 1977 - 1012 pages
...In the same traditional vein, in one of his most important essays, "The Round River," he writes that "conservation is a state of harmony between men and...meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth." At other times, hpweyer, Leopold argues for an idea that is one of his major contributions to the theory... | |
| National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Water Quality Criteria - 1972 - 628 pages
...not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism" ; and he points out that "by land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth."4 The growing public awareness of environmental quality has helped to accelerate activity directed... | |
| Jill Metcoff - 1997 - 196 pages
...landowners into a coherent plan. But it's a challenge we must meet now." — CONSERVATION ADVOCATE Conservation is a state of harmony between men and...the things on, over, or in the earth Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left That... | |
| John Warfield Simpson - 1999 - 422 pages
...placed on our environmental use. This revised interpretation is the most common connotation today: "Conservation is a state of harmony between men and...cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. . . . The land is one organism. Its parts, like our own parts, compete with each other and co-operate... | |
| Geral Blanchard - 2004 - 159 pages
...importance of developing and maintaining a sense of harmony between man and the land he stood on. He wrote, "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;...cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." Leopold opposed a merely monetary attitude toward land. An ecological conscience required that citizens... | |
| J. Peder Zane - 2004 - 276 pages
...or persecuted as if in a vacuum. Today, it may seem to be common sense to write, "Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." Yet in the I940s, this was by no means a selfevident position, and most of his fellow game managers... | |
| 333 pages
...conservation measures on local farms to reduce sediment washing into the bay and help protect the coral reefs. "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;...cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. . . The land is one organism. " -Aldo Leopold Your environmental education program should help the... | |
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