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The Land Ethic

Aldo Leopold

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1949
Pages
Pages 20

Odysseus comes home from Troy and hangs a dozen slave girls on one rope, suspecting them of misbehaviour in his absence. Leopold opens there, and the point is quiet and terrible.

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.
The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold

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