Land Ethics Book Review
Land Ethics Book Review A Sand County Almanac
A Sand County Almanac is a brilliant book about the need and conservation for human ethics towards the utilization of land. In the first twelve chapters, there is a detailed description of how animals and plants interact mutually to ensure their survival. The chapters that follow focus on different environments that the narrator had visited. The narrator takes his audience to expansive trips through his recollection. The author adjourns his work where he indicates the call to develop social ethics towards land and environment. The main driving matter in his work is the argument on land ethics. The author wanted to inform his audience that they should be more conscious of what they will gain in the big picture, future, from their land rather than what they achieve from it momentarily. Long term benefits are achievable only if the readers engage in the long term sustainability.
A Sand County Almanac developed on a collection of nature’s history, site descriptions, well draw philosophies and quotes such as “Anything is right when if it preserves the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic society. When it tends, otherwise, considered wrong”. A Sand County Almanac consists of a collection of already published essays that the author had been part of the magazines’ development on conservation and hunts. The book is also well furnished with long philosophy oriented essays. The book focuses on Aldo Leopold’s perspective regarding ideas on the discussion board.
Through his themes, purpose, science, humor, history, and prose, Aldo Leopold uses A Sand County Almanac and call Land Ethics to communicate the actual relationship between people and nature. Aldo hopes that his audience will change the way they perceive the land conservancy to a deserved form, where they will respect and feel passionate on their land. In reality, the terms sand counties used to reflect to the prevailing state filled with sandy soil. Aldo expresses observations and narrations on how plants and animals react to seasons and clues on how to conserve.
In the section, Sketches Here and There, Aldo drifts to a metaphorical angle from time to environment and places. Aldo’s organization of work is quite professional. It is in categories of themes and autobiographically, based in farms and unexploited lands in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. “Red Legs Kicking”, reminds Leopold’s audience of his youthful hunting excursions days in Iowa while “Thinking like a Mountain” reminds the readers of a hunting expedition in his elder days, which forms a substantial base for his perspective in whatever he writes in A Sand County Almanac. He explains how she wolf died in a process that conservationist deceived that on killing the predators top in the food chain would most likely ensure that game was adequate. This section discusses the illogical illusions that elimination of an animal had a crucial place to play in the ecosystem’s balance.
His book concludes on philosophical essays. They lay under one title, “The Upshot”, where the author brings out the sarcasm of conservation aimed at wider appeal for nature and garner support from others. There is a direction for people to conserve their environment in a recreational mode, yet this is the sole cause of its destruction. In his work, Leopold indicates how some people consider trophies to indicate what they had achieved to conquer the wilderness. In actual sense, if photographs were to be taken and kept as a relic, they would do only right than harm, compared to the actual act of harvesting trophies from animals just to point at in the future of their sarcastic achievements. Leopold wants to learn to avoid doing harm to what surrounds him, by a reminder that apart from character building aspects, the other best brag of a conquest is the realistic experience in the wild.
Leopold’s work focus is towards reasonable conservation measures, while still enjoying what nature has to offer. His audiences enlightened with the information that conservation is the state of harmonious living between man and land. It is all about education, and respect required for land conservation. He warns that man might never be free if they lacked wild environment to journey. This book, an intellectual underpinning, is not for the novice readers, rather than for the environmentalists. The reader can only conclude that Aldo Leopold is a visionary out to inspire conservation policies. Leopold manages to raise the importance of aesthetic values, biodiversity, protection laws, land management, plethora of material blessings, and land as community versus commodity.
