I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever ‘written' ... it evolves in the minds of a thinking community. (Aldo Leopold)

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever ‘written' ... it evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

Aldo Leopold

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