 Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth. Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.  Our Public Lands - Page 61956Full view - About this book
 | Dana L. Jackson, Laura Jackson - 2002 - 316 pages
...the land would fail if other parts were ruthlessly exploited. He wrote in the essay "Round River": Conservation is a state of harmony between men and...predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism. (Leopold 1966) Although... | |
 | Richard L. Knight, Susanne Riedel - 2002 - 213 pages
...state of harmony between men and land. . . . You cannot cherish [the] right hand and chop off [the] left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate...predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. ... If the land mechanism as a whole is good,... | |
 | Ken Drushka, Forest History Society - 2003 - 116 pages
...MacMillan at the Yale forestry school. For Leopold, writing several decades later, conservation was "a state of harmony between men and land. By land...predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism. Its parts, like our... | |
 | Geral Blanchard - 2004 - 159 pages
...importance of developing and maintaining a sense of harmony between man and the land he stood on. He wrote, "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;...cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." Leopold opposed a merely monetary attitude toward land. An ecological conscience required that citizens... | |
 | J. Peder Zane - 2004 - 276 pages
...or persecuted as if in a vacuum. Today, it may seem to be common sense to write, "Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." Yet in the I940s, this was by no means a selfevident position, and most of his fellow game managers... | |
 | Federation of Alberta Naturalists, Fish and Wildlife Historical Society - 2005 - 444 pages
...Partially adapted from the Fish and Wildlife Division website (www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/fw) THE RA Conservation Conservation is a state of harmony between men and...predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the fotest and mine the farm. The land is one organism. Its parts, like our... | |
 | Curt D. Meine, Richard L. Knight - 2006 - 390 pages
...to do it out of pure curiosity and interest. Natural History— The Forgotten Science (1938); RR 64 Conservation is a state of harmony between men and...predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism. Its parts, like our... | |
 | Dan Imhoff, Jo Ann Baumgartner - 2006 - 268 pages
...implicit to the discipline of conservation. "Harmony with the land," wrote Leopold in Round River, "is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish...predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism." Maintaining the wholeness... | |
 | 333 pages
...conservation measures on local farms to reduce sediment washing into the bay and help protect the coral reefs. "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;...cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. . . The land is one organism. " -Aldo Leopold Your environmental education program should help the... | |
 | 1972 - 814 pages
...goes beyond. Leopold tells us that land means all things on, over or in the earth. Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend — you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Or, for our neophyte explorers — you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot build a forest... | |
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