...Leopold's land ethic remains so important today, it identifies this destructive process as morally wrong. "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." Applying this principle to our treatment of nature proves the last four hundred years of actions morally...

...NEIL G. SUGIHARA, JAN W. VAN WAGTENDONK, JOANN FITESKAUFMAN, KEVIN E. SHAFFER, AND ANDREA E. THODE A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ALDO LEOPOLD, 1952 It's not a matter of if fire will occur but when it will occur. MARK FINNEY, Research...

...altered or threatened that state must surely be "unnaturaL" Odum's philosophy echoed Leopold's maxim: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."- 1 " According to this logic, nuclear weapons were clearly "wrong," threatening homeostatic ecosystems...

...free speech. 4 Leopold is remembered chiefly for his land ethic, summed up in his essay of that name: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." 5 So familiar are these sentences that it is easy to overlook the complexity of them and to forget...

...concern prescribed in the famous statement and environmental challenge from Leopold (1947, p. 262). A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. The endless, and not undesirable, quest for production in agriculture is obviously not concerned with...

...ethically and aesthetically right as well as what is economically and socially expedient. As he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" (Leopold, 1949/1989, p. 224). Now it is becoming ever more apparent that Leopold was right. In dealing...

...growing cycle. Incorrect: Erodes and exposes roots I n correct: So i I sloughs and buries plant. L A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 from construction projects may become available in midsummer...

...egalitarianism (that is the belief in the moral equivalence and worth of around Leopold's edict that, '[A] thing is right when it tends to preserve the...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise' (quoted in Barnett, 1999, p. 162). The failure to base definitions of environmental crime around this...

...a tamed, dollarproducing landscape. Four decades later, however, he wrote in A Sand County Almanac, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise" (224—25). Yet, "we are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam shovel" (226). Aldo Leopold was referring...

...Holmes Rolston, III, and Robert Elliot provide archetypical articulations. Leopold, for example, states "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community, it is wrong when it tends otherwise" (Leopold 1987, pp. 224-5). Rolston claims that "systemic nature is valuable intrinsically, as a projective...