| 1909 - 918 pages
...consideration. Leopold felt that each question as to what constitutes decent land-use should be examined "* * * in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as to what is economically expedient." Since we reap the harvest of little or no attention having been... | |
| Kenneth L. Smith - 1967 - 188 pages
...community to which we belong . . . Quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an' economic problem. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically...preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the . . . community of all living things. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Saving the free-flowing... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1978 - 1810 pages
...economic problem. Examine each question in Urma of what is ethically and esthetically right, aa well aa what Is economically expedient. A thing is right when...preserve the Integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotlc community. It la wrong when it tends otherwise." Thank you Mr. Chairman for thia opportunity... | |
| J. Baird Callicott - 1987 - 322 pages
...the beauty of the biotic community is an important measure of the rightness or wrongness of actions: "Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right. ... A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.... | |
| Holmes Rolston - 2012 - 408 pages
...there is nothing to celebrate. Is There No Beauty at All in Nature? "A thing is right," said Leopold, "when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." Immanuel Kant cautioned that in appreciating natural beauty we ought not to assume that nature has... | |
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