A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
Month-by-month sketches of a worn-out Wisconsin farm, followed by the essay that founded modern environmental ethics: 'a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community'. Short, plain and foundational.
Read it if…
you want the origin of the land ethic in beautiful prose.
Skip it if…
you want current environmental policy; this is 1949.
Three things you will actually use
- Think like a mountain: long and whole.
- We abuse land because we see it as a commodity.
- Ethics expands its circle over time.
Do this first
Read 'Thinking Like a Mountain', the four pages that matter most.
Our verdict
The land ethic, founded.
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