"There is yet no ethic dealing with man's……" — Aldo Leopold

"There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations."

— Aldo Leopold

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