 | Craig W. Thomas - 2002 - 382 pages
...The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations." By contrast, "a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...the landcommunity to plain member and citizen of it" (Leopold 1949: 204). Largely unnoticed when first published, A Sand County Almanac has since been widely... | |
 | Norman Wirzba - 2003 - 256 pages
...transformation of our human identity would follow. He described the transformation in the famous lines: "A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from...the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."10 To be a conqueror of the land-community means that one sees oneself as superior to, and in some... | |
 | Richard Bellamy, Andrew Mason - 2003 - 258 pages
...it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. As Leopold stated 'a land ethic changes the role of Homo Sapiens from conqueror of the land ... to plain member and citizen of it'. Leopold quoted in D. Scherer and T. Attig (eds). Ethics... | |
 | H.M. Moore, H.R. Fox, S. Elliott - 2003 - 412 pages
...boundaries of the community to include soils, water, plants and animals, or collectively: the land. ..a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land comnnmitv to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow members, and also... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 456 pages
...liberalism/ 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."5 For animal liberationists it is as if the ideological... | |
 | Michael P. Branch, Scott Slovic - 2003 - 390 pages
...must be extended to include "soils, waters, plants, and animals," and humans must change their role from "conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it" (204). His most cited statement is that "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,... | |
 | Susan J. Rosowski - 2003 - 350 pages
...boundaries of the community to include soils, water, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from a conqueror of the land-community to a plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members,... | |
 | David Baron - 2004 - 296 pages
...about predators. In A Sand County Almanac, Leopold urged a new paradigm for man's place in nature, "from conqueror of the landcommunity to plain member and citizen of it." He preached humility and respect in man's dealing with wild animals, plants, water, and soil. Leopold... | |
 | Douglas E. Booth - 2004 - 292 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...land-community to plain member and citizen of it." To admit the world of nature to a widening circle of ethical concern suggests a human capacity for... | |
 | Thomas R Dunlap - 2004 - 236 pages
...and radical one. 67 Leopold recognized the implications of his work. Accepting the land ethic changed "the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it," and he warned that "no important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change... | |
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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. 
