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The land ethic is a perspective on environmental ethics first championed by Aldo Leopold in his book A Sand County Almanac. Leopold argues that the next step in the evolution of ethics is the expansion of ethics to include nonhuman members of the biotic community, collectively referred to as "the land."

Leopold states the basic principle of his land ethic as, "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."

He also describes it in this way: "The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land...[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 respect for the community as such."

See also

• Agrarianism
• Southern Agrarians
• Ecology

References

• The Land Ethic. from A Sand County Almanac 1948

External links

• Land Ethic Toolbox

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