Leopold, Aldo

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York Oxford University Press, 1949. A classic, very readable, inspiring series of essays on humakind s relationships with land, wilderness, conservation, and wildlife. 

Aldo Leopold, a leading ecocentric theorist and biologist wrote A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise (Leopold 1949, pp. 224-225). This statement emphasises the holistic view and systems approaches associated with ecocentric ethics. 

This is probably the greatest of Darwin s ideas, and almost a century later, in 1949, one of the founding fathers of bioethics, Aldo Leopold, underlined its enormous value with this comment ... 

Read All Animals are Equal, Singer Read The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold Online Reading An Animal s Place, Poltan... 

Aldo Leopold, quoted in Donald Worster, Nature s Economy, 2nd ed. (New York Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 289. 

The cabin sat just outside Luna, New Mexico, in an area known as Centerfire Bog, with a view dominated by the distant 11,000-foot Escudilla Mountain. This is where Aldo Leopold learned to think like a mountain, and where the first officially protected wilderness area in the United States, named for Leopold, is located. It was stark and gorgeous and paradise to Galvin and Suckling, though they almost lost the cabin in a heated argument with the landlord on the issue of rent, which was seventeen dollars a month. Suckling said he had been told thirteen dollars, but for once he decided not to stand on principle... 

Aldo Leopold, 1886-1948, was an American naturalist, conservationist, and philosopher ofprofound importance to the environmental movement. His most significant contribution was the development of the Land Ethic. Leopold wrote, [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 feUow-members, and also respect for the community as such. ... 

Aldo Leopold. A Sand County Almanac, New York Ballantine Books 1986. 

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