Aldo Leopold - 'A Sand County Almanac'

This weeks Green Thought is taken from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac ( written in the 30’s and 40’s).

(From ‘The Land Ethic’ in ‘A Sand County Almanac’.)

‘quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. 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’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac