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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Aldo Leopold
Respect, Land, Community
Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.18, Library of America

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free.

Aldo Leopold
Land, Community, Wild And Free
Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

Aldo Leopold
Thinking, Land, Community
Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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