biotic community Quotes

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

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.

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.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live.