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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics - Page 41
edited by - 2019 - 432 pages
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The State of Wisconsin Blue Book

Elections - 1977 - 1012 pages

...question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." In other words, Leopold wants to create an ethical commitment first, believing that attempts at conservation...

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Environmental Quality Education Act of 1970: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Select Subcommittee on Education - Environmental policy - 1970 - 1078 pages

...the very spirit of their places. In the balance of ecology, wrote American naturalist Aldo I>eopold, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,...biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." One reason the American environment is now a septic tank is that we have never considered ourselves...

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