 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1992 - 208 pages
...orientation of contemporary conservationism, and would give the biotic community as a whole moral standing.31 "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."32 The science of ecology can aid us in... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 pages
...Press, 1988). 10 Leopold, p. 204. "A land ethic," Leopold continues, "changes the role of Homosapiens 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." 11 Tory as opposed to Neo-Conservative.... | |
 | Steven C. Rockefeller, John C. Elder - 1992 - 240 pages
...which we belong, to practice what Aldo Leopold calls "the land ethic," which "changes the role oiHomo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."' Finally, if we say the cause of the ecological crisis is our fvorldview , a failure to perceive ourselves... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 pages
...ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals ... A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.81 Leopold had mixed feelings about the... | |
 | R.J. Berry - 2007 - 293 pages
...been easier. Leopold's words have remained imprinted in my memory since I first read them long ago: A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member or citizen of it. Oh, where can we find humility enough for that citizenship? Therein lies the ultimate... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - 1994 - 294 pages
...and the conquering fixation of humanity: A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqurror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-membrrs, and also respect for the community as such. ln human history, we have learned (l hope)... | |
 | Carolyn M. King - 2002 - 250 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 (204). A thing is right when it tends to... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state. ce he could have found to fish for steamboats; that fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such. In human history, we have learned (I hope)... | |
 | 2002 - 156 pages
...recognition of the ecological connection to the land that humans share with other organisms, when he wrote, "A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...land-community to plain member and citizen of it." The task for those who are charged with managing human use of lands in the Arctic for the sustainability... | |
 | Richard L. Fern - 2002 - 292 pages
...sweeping claims about our identity as human beings. In one Thoreau-like moment, he argues (240) that "a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...land-community to plain member and citizen of it." Here, Leopold flags the role a transformed sense of self plays in the formation of a genuinely holistic... | |
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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. 
