From the Bookshelf of More Trees Please…

[close] "In his classic book, Aldo Leopold (1949) outlined a view for a new land ethic. He suggested that humans need to consider the importance of the natural environment - of our dependence on nature. Rather than an ethic of dominion and control, humans need to learn to live in harmony with nature and to respect nature. In this new land ethic, human activity will be guided by the impact that it will have on the natural environment. In order for this to occur, we must know about nature: about ecology, about plants and animals, and about the effect that our behavior has on this ecology. At the core of environmental ethics is an implicit consideration of the similarities between humans and nature. As Leopold (1949) stated: "Darwin gave us the first glimpse of the origin of species. We know now what was unknown to all the preceding caravan of generations: that men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. This new knowledge should have given us, by this time, a sense of kinship with fellow-creatures" (p. 109)."

Schultz, P. W. (2002). Inclusion with Nature: The Psychology Of Human-Nature Relations. In P. Schmuck & W. P. Schultz (Eds.), Psychology of Sustainable Development (pp. 61–78). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-09...