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" In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. "
EPA Journal - Page 60
1992
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Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, Volume 33

1909 - 918 pages
...and even the continued existence as best could be managed in u natural state. lie summed it up, thus: In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens...conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizens of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such....
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 1894 pages
...land, the land community, what we today call the environment. He says : A land ethic changes the roles of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the landcommunity...member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow members, and also resi»ect for the community as such. He, then speaks to what he calls land...
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Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation - 1972 - 224 pages
...land, the land community, what we today call the environment. He says : A land ethic changes the roles of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the landcommunity...member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow members, and also respect for the community as such. lIe then speaks to what he calls land health...
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Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 224 pages
...spots, their continued existence in a natural state. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Honw sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain...member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow members, and also respect for the community as such. In human history, we have learned (I hope)...
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The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

Langdon Winner - 2010 - 216 pages
...functioning." As an alternative he proposed an "ecological conscience" and "land ethic" that would change "the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."27 Not content with vague musings about harmony or unity with nature, Leopold tried to define ethical...
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Arctic Coastal Plain Public Lands Leasing Act of 1987: hearings before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1988 - 1350 pages
...like to quote from Aldo Leopold, a respected American forester and author of A Sand County Almanac: "A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...land-community to plain member and citizen of it. A land ethic cannot prevent the alteration, management and use of the "land resources" but 1t does...
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Issues of Justice: Social Sources and Religious Meanings

Warren R. Copeland - 2000 - 350 pages
...the "land ethic" drew from an ideal of "citizenship." In A Sand County Almanac he writes that "the land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror...land-community to plain member and citizen of it." 4 In fact, this ideal was frequently appealed to by the science of ecology, or "science of communities,"...
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Environmental Justice

Peter S. Wenz - 1988 - 388 pages
...to see soils, waters, plants, and animals as members of our own community. It enjoins us to change "the role of homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."42 This "implies respect for.. .fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such..."43...
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Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists

1988 - 316 pages
...entire species of plants and animals disappeared. Leopold proposed that the human's role be changed from "conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it." But he realized that people could adopt a new ethical attitude only toward something they could "see,...
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Ariadne's Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking

Mary E. Clark - 1989 - 620 pages
...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...fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.64 A Philosophy of Community Popular television programmes about Nature tend to present the myriad...
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