Aldo Leopold's lyrical combination of nature writing and philosophical argument, culminating in the land ethic — the extension of ethical consideration to the biotic community as a whole.
Argues for the land ethic through aesthetic and ecological observation; the land is not a commodity but a community to which humans belong; integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community are the criteria of right action.
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