Aldo LeopoldIn “The Land Ethics,” Aldo compares the land to Odysseus’ slave girls and how they are treated like “property,” when they are a privilege but not an obligation which causes them to be treated very poorly. Leopold's statement, “Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land,” [4] is my favorite line he that he wrote, because it has evidence to back it up. Before the Native Americans were wiped out by the English men diseases they were in harmony with the land; they knew what soil grew which plants, what material would not harm the environment yet hold their houses together very well, and they hunted for necessity, not sport. Now since we are not in harmony with the land, we are wiping out species and habitats for those species, causing unnatural weather patterns due to the high levels of carbon emissions, and causing the Earth to cave-in in certain areas.
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