Land ethic, according to the reading, is appreciating our land in a new light. Not taking it for granted, and becoming one with the land was what Leopold stressed. It’s a community. Nothing will succeed unless we work together, learn to appreciate the land and all it has given us.
Being that he died 60 years ago, it may not seem realistic that his ideas about conservation are still legitimate today. But when you think deeper about it, the concept is still much the same. There is a practical appreciation for nature, but we also get the aesthetic and beautiful types of nature as well.
Leopold worked to create the first dedicated wilderness area in the world. I give him much credit to understand, much before the majority of his time, about the partnership that rural and urban areas, and the relation of people to land have an effect on our world. I think it’s amazing how he picked up on how to live alertly in life. It is one thing to preserve for land, it is another to actually care about the wellbeing of the earth. He taught us how to enjoy land, how to not take it for granted and appreciate what we’ve been given. We don’t need to be taking from it all the time. Sometimes it’s nice just to just be. It’s amazing to see how just far along he was in his ideas, he really was a man ahead of his time. It’s nice to know that, even in modern days, people are still learning and reading about what he had to say about the environment and community.
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