| 1953 - 1224 pages
...land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slaveA Ido Leopold girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly...evidence correctly, an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity. It is the third step in a sequence. The first two have already been taken. Individual... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 1894 pages
...as yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to hind, and to the animals and plants which grow uixin it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property....evidence correctly, an evolutionary possibility and an econolip-al neces-ity. It is the third step in a sequence. The first two have already been taken. Individual... | |
| Charles Birch, John B. Cobb - 1985 - 372 pages
...land and to the non-human animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly...to this third element in human environment is, if we read evolution correctly, an ecological possibility. It is the third step in a sequence. The first... | |
| 1988 - 316 pages
...like Odysseus' slaveAldo Leopold (Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives) girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly...economic, entailing privileges but not obligations. ' Leopold's remarkable collection of essays was published in 1949, the year after his death, and became... | |
| Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...example, to define the anti-social uses of sticks and stones in the days of the mastodons than of bullets and billboards in the age of motors. The first ethics...evidence correctly, an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity. It is the third step in a sequence. The first two have already been taken. Individual... | |
| Peter De Vos - 1991 - 412 pages
...idea that other persons are to be treated as property; but land is a different story. Writes Leopold: There is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relation...still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.17 So, based on his recognition that humanity is not "conqueror of the land community,"... | |
| Aldo Leopold - 1992 - 400 pages
...the individual. There is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relationship to land and to the non-human animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like...to this third element in human environment is, if we read evolution correctly, an ecological possibility. It is the third step in a sequence. The first... | |
| Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 pages
...development.44 There is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relationship to land and to the non-human animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like...to this third element in human environment is, if we read evolution correctly, an ecological possibility. . . . Individual thinkers since the days of... | |
| Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1992 - 208 pages
...relationship between people and the earth and has yet to be developed and integrated into moral thinking. "The extension of ethics to this third element in...evidence correctly, an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity. It is the third step in a sequence."30 Such a "land ethic" would transcend the... | |
| Edward S. Casey - 1993 - 444 pages
...Ethic," A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 218. He also observes that "land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property....economic, entailing privileges but not obligations." Although based on a lifetime as a naturalist, Leopold's formulation of a land ethics dates from the... | |
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