...boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land." It "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of...land-community to plain member and citizen of it" (Sand County, 204). Leopold's use of the term "community" is consistent with early twentieth-century...

...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. And that is how I want the dots to go together:...

...[A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949), pp. 224-225]. Leopold also notes, "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" (Sand County Almanac, p. 204). 139. Sale,...

...For reasons of both necessity and right, the recognition that we are members in the community of life "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of...land-community to plain member and citizen of it" (p. 204). The "upshot" is Leopold's classic statement that "a thing is right when it tends to preserve...

...Many of the efforts to pursue this extension or land ethic still do not reach the point at which it "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of...the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."14 One reason for this, I believe, is that the present state of philosophy and of environmental...

..."conservation was a state of harmony between men and the land." Seeing the world in ecological terms recast "the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it." Leopold identified another challenge as well: our collective responsibility to the non-human world,...

...wilderness, Leopold also prescribes humanity's place in the wild with his famous land ethic, which "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of...the land-community to plain member and citizen of it."46 Lacking Leopold's poetic sensibility, ecoactivist Dave Foreman puts it bluntly, "It [wilderness]...

...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 from conqueror of the land community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also...

...to the land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it," of the need for us to change our role from "conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it." He spoke of the importance of "love, respect, and admiration for land," and the need for harmony between...