A Sand County Almanac

Book Report: A Sand County Almanac, By Aldo Leopold Brent Dozier Although Leopold’s love of great expanses of wilderness is readily apparent, his book does not cry out in defense of particular tracts of land about to go under the axe or plow, but rather deals with the minutiae, the details, of often unnoticed plants and animals, all the little things that, in our ignorance, we have left out of our managed acreages but …showed first 75 words of 728 total…

…showed last 75 words of 728 total…amounts to the same thing as social ethics. A land ethic, in the author’s terms, means a "willing limitation on freedom of action in the struggle for survival". Leopold shows how human ethics came into being, first on a level between individuals and next on the level between individuals and their society, and states that the extension of ethics to include the environment which gives us sustenance is a logical and natural next step.