"An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism."
About Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.
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