 | Michael Lockwood, Graeme Worboys, Ashish Kothari - 2006 - 833 pages
...course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense... A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise (Leopold, 1949,pp223, 224-225). quite apart from any benefits that humans might gain from it. Natural areas,... | |
 | Robert L Zimdahl - 2010 - 272 pages
...concern prescribed in the famous statement and environmental challenge from Leopold (1947, p. 262). A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. The endless, and not undesirable, quest for production in agriculture is obviously not concerned with... | |
 | Neil G. Sugihara, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Kevin E. Shaffer, JoAnn Fites-Kaufman, Andrea E. Thode - 2006 - 613 pages
...NEIL G. SUGIHARA, JAN W. VAN WAGTENDONK, JOANN FITESKAUFMAN, KEVIN E. SHAFFER, AND ANDREA E. THODE A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ALDO LEOPOLD, 1952 It's not a matter of if fire will occur but when it will occur. MARK FINNEY, Research... | |
 | Henry S. Butler - 2006 - 105 pages
...Leopold's land ethic remains so important today, it identifies this destructive process as morally wrong. "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." Applying this principle to our treatment of nature proves the last four hundred years of actions morally... | |
 | Eric T. Freyfogle - 2008 - 310 pages
...free speech. 4 Leopold is remembered chiefly for his land ethic, summed up in his essay of that name: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." 5 So familiar are these sentences that it is easy to overlook the complexity of them and to forget... | |
 | Christof Mauch, Nathan Stoltzfus, Douglas R. Weiner - 2006 - 244 pages
...altered or threatened that state must surely be "unnaturaL" Odum's philosophy echoed Leopold's maxim: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."- 1 " According to this logic, nuclear weapons were clearly "wrong," threatening homeostatic ecosystems... | |
 | Andrew Dobson, Robyn Eckersley - 2006 - 249 pages
...be respected. 5 Aldo Leopold's view is usually interpreted as holistic in this sense. Leopold wrote: 'A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.' See Leopold 1949. Now, one might think that holists would require that we abandon my Principle of Human... | |
 | Clayne R. Jensen, Steven Guthrie - 2006 - 392 pages
...preservation? Do you see any change of attitude in recent years? Explain. CHAPTER Resource Management Concepts A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold Long gone are the days when Americans saw this country as an unlimited supply of natural... | |
 | Peter Wild - 2006 - 333 pages
...a tamed, dollarproducing landscape. Four decades later, however, he wrote in A Sand County Almanac, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" (224—25). Yet, "we are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam shovel" (226). Aldo Leopold was referring... | |
 | Robert Birkby - 1996 - 344 pages
...growing cycle. Incorrect: Erodes and exposes roots I n correct: So i I sloughs and buries plant. L A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 from construction projects may become available in midsummer... | |
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. 
