 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.64 A Philosophy of Community Popular television... | |
 | Roderick Frazier Nash - 1989 - 306 pages
...recognition that "the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts." The land ethic, then, "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of...member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such." Behind this sentence lies Leopold's recognition... | |
 | J. Baird Callicott - 1989 - 340 pages
...their membership in this (vastly) larger-than-human society. 45 As Leopold rather bluntly puts it, "A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...land-community to plain member and citizen of it." 46 The privileged position of human beings in the natural order is thus, in the Leopold land ethic,... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens...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)... | |
 | Arthur R. Kruckeberg - 1991 - 506 pages
...is a differentiation of social from antisocial conduct. These are two definitions of one thing. ... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens...members, and also respect for the community, as such. (1987:202-4) Right : Subdividing the forest for vacation homes in south Puget Sound, Oakland Bay and... | |
 | Lawrence E. Johnson - 1993 - 316 pages
...boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...land-community to plain member and citizen of it. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.... | |
 | Edward P. Morgan - 1991 - 386 pages
...boundaries of community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land . . . and changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to just plain members and citizens of it. It implies respect for his fellow members, and also respect... | |
 | Carolyn Merchant - 1992 - 298 pages
...bounds of the community to include "soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively, the land." It "changes the role of homo sapiens from conqueror of...fellow members and also respect for the community itself."" In putting the land ethic into practice, Leopold urged that each question be judged according... | |
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In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the landcommunity to plain member and citizen of it. 
