 | Bryan G. Norton - 2003 - 568 pages
...ecology is the key to a new morality. To understand our role in the biological world is to reject hubris: "a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...land-community to plain member and citizen of it" (Leopold, 1949, p. 204). The goal, after the transformation to a new perspective, is to understand... | |
 | Douglas E. Booth - 2002 - 294 pages
...include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively the land." Moreover, according to Leopold, "a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."9 In the end, this debate over ethical foundations is important in a democratic society only to... | |
 | Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw - 2002 - 364 pages
...collectively: the land. ... It is wrong when it tends otherwise." This perspective, Leopold wrote, "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of...land-community to plain member and citizen of it. Foreman recounted how this ethic was born in a wilderness epiphany Leopold had as a young man working... | |
 | Gerald Hodge, Ira M. Robinson - 2002 - 492 pages
...of the famous wildlife biologist Aldo Leopold (1969, 403) who, half a century ago, said that the new land ethic "changes the role of Homo Sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain members and citizens of it." A contemporary Canadian planner sees it as a step towards a new form of... | |
 | Ivan Goodbody, Elizabeth M. Thomas-Hope - 2002 - 508 pages
...obligations. Yet the conqueror role is ultimately self-defeating. A comprehensive "nature ethic", like a land ethic, "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community or environment to plain member and citizen of it" (Leopold, 1968: 204). The community must be involved... | |
 | Ruth F. Chadwick, Doris Schroeder - 2002 - 384 pages
...liberalism.4 Aldo Leopold also draws upon metaphors of political liberalism when he tells us that his land ethic "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land community to plain member and citizen of it." For animal liberationists it is as if the ideological... | |
 | Graeme Garrard - 2003 - 446 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. 6 The "fellow-members" that Leopold refers... | |
 | Charles Sokol Bednar - 2012 - 236 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. 6 The "fellow-members" that Leopold refers... | |
 | Alan S. Miller - 2003 - 328 pages
...responses. As Aldo Leopold long ago suggested, The land ethic changes the role of Homo Sapiens from the conqueror of the land-community to plain member and...members, and also respect for the community as such. In human history, we have learned (I hope) that the conqueror role is eventually selfdefeating. Why?... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 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...land-community to plain member and citizen of it." The process of becoming an ecological citizen is described by Berg and Dasmann as "rein habitation":... | |
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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. 
