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" The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively, the land. * * * In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member... "
Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ... - Page 131
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 204 pages
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The State of Wisconsin Blue Book

1977 - 1012 pages
...prompt him to compete for his place in the community, but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate.... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land." From this viewpoint of ethics Leopold again attacks mere monetary considerations: "examine each question...
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Environmental Citizen Action: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation - 1971 - 638 pages
...community. Ecology reflects the land ethic ; and Aldo Leopold wrote in A Sand County Almanac 204 (1949), "The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively the land." That as I see it is the issue of "standing" in the present case and controversy. APPENDIX TO OPINION...
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NBS Special Publication, Issues 401-405

1974 - 1016 pages
...member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in the community, but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land." (Sand County Almanac) I begin this discussion of economic, energy, environment trade-offs by quoting...
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Status of the Nation's Wetlands and Laws Related Thereto: Hearings Before ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources - 1981 - 1762 pages
...Aldo Leopold for his espousal of a "land ethic" which envisions a community of interdependent parts. The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land." County of Freeborn v. Bryson. 243 NW2d at 322, citing Sand County Almanac (1949) p. 203. We reaffirm...
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Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands - 1986 - 750 pages
...truly great visionary--Aldo Leopold—who stated that a land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of a community to include soils, waters, plants and animals, or collectively: the land. Today, I see a necessary and national application of Leopold's idea, the land ethic, to one of our...
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Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Oversight Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands - 1986 - 724 pages
...great visionary — Aldo Leopold — who stated that a land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of a community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: The land. Today, I see a necessary and national application of Leopold's idea, the land ethic, to one of our...
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Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays

J. Baird Callicott - 1987 - 322 pages
...upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land" (203). Steeped as their origins were in the social contract theory of John Locke, Americans took the...
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The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics

Roderick Frazier Nash - 1989 - 306 pages
...became radical environmentalists and animal liberationists. « CHAPTER 3 « Ecology Widens the Circle The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. —A Ido Leopold, 1949 And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding...
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In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy

J. Baird Callicott - 1989 - 340 pages
...rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts— The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land." 31 But how can we help to bring this next step in the ethical sequence to pass? The answer to this...
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Wilderness Benchmark 1988: Proceedings of the National Wilderness Colloquium ...

1989 - 236 pages
..."rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the...waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land" (Leopold 1966). Extension of moral and ethical considerations to the natural world is also supported...
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