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#land-ethic
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Reading group: Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, from the shack to the land ethic
Leopold's A Sand County Almanac was published in 1949, the year after he died helping fight a neighbour's grass fire. It's short, it's beautiful, and its last essay, "The Land Ethic", is one of the founding texts of environmental ethics. I work…
Started by Anand Pillai5 replies238 views -
Trustee or plain citizen? Nasr’s khalifa and Leopold’s land community
I'm an architect in Shiraz, and I spend a lot of time in the old gardens here. A Persian garden is a strange object: entirely human-made, geometric, irrigated by channels that took enormous labour, and yet everyone who walks in feels that…
Started by Reza Tehrani5 replies274 views