 | Steward Pickett - 1997 - 492 pages
...affection, indeed a sense of love of the land. At the end of his essay on the Land Ethic, he stated: "It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation...economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense." In addition to fostering appreciation and protection of natural communities, he struck off in a new... | |
 | Linda Caldwell, Shela Mou - 1999 - 225 pages
...affection, reverence, and respect (Sagoff 1991). This is what Aldo Leopold had in mind when he wrote: "It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation...mean something far broader than mere economic value." (Leopold 1966:261) Spiritual value is a type of moral value. Environmental psychologists and philosophers... | |
 | Prue Taylor - 1998 - 462 pages
...and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. . . . It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation...economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.... | |
 | Douglas Sturm - 1998 - 348 pages
...land" entails "love, respect, and admiration for land and a high regard to its value," meaning by value "something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense."3 4 Whether that moral declaration necessarily implies "environmental fascism" depends on the... | |
 | Mark J. Smith - 1999 - 454 pages
...been done away with. The present scramble to reflood muskrat marshes is a case in point. The outlook It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation...for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, 1 of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical... | |
 | Peter H. Kahn - 1999 - 302 pages
...education.'" In turn, he argues that such education will continue to fail until we help people develop a "love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value" (p. 261). "No important change in ethics," Leopold writes, "was ever accomplished without an internal... | |
 | Peter C. List - 2000 - 388 pages
...gone, not the same place it was. Mark what you leave. [Fdwin Arlington Robinson, Tristram] The Outlook It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation...economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense. Perhaps the most serious obstacle impeding the evolution of a land ethic is the fact that our educational... | |
 | Timothy P. Duane - 1999 - 627 pages
...ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, love, understand or otherwise have faith in. It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation...economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.39 Leopold's personal relationship to a particular place — to the land as an entity, rather... | |
 | Benjamin Kline - 2000 - 198 pages
...conservation easy, we have made it trivial. . . . It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relationship to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration...economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense. Perhaps the most serious obstacle impeding the evolution of a land ethic is the fact that our educational... | |
 | Karen Warren - 2000 - 282 pages
...role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. ... (2) It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation...value. By value, I of course mean something far broader that mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense. . . . (3) A thing is right when... | |
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It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical... 
