The Land Ethic

"A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these
‘resources,’ but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state."

I agree with the author in this quote given because as he stated prior. We haven't really been taking care of the land that we have been given and it is basically going to keep happening at the technological rate that we are going. The best thing that we can do is introduce a land ethic that'll allow us to at least preserve the land for the future. Give us a set of ethics that we HAVE to follow in order to guarantee continued existence.

"In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such."

This idea caught my attention immediately after reading it because the author seems to make us seem like villains towards the land. He implies that we need to be citizens of the land rather than be the conquerors of it. It made me think of events in history where all we've been concerned with is conquering land. We have never thought about after we conquered the land. What's next? What's next is implementing a land ethic as the author stated, not treating the land as a resource mine.

" Contrast the cane-lands with what hindsight tells us about the Southwest, where the pioneers were equally brave, resourceful, and persevering."

This quote stuck out to me because it showed me that it is possible for us to be as equally brave as we are and have war and multiple feuds and still preserve the land. Southwest pioneers have done it for years. These pioneers tend to their land as well as use it for resources as well, which is what we should be doing but instead we just use the land to our advantage rather than take care of it. We should shift the ways we preserve the earth towards more of the ways that pioneers did, most of the land that we have today is due to them. If we switched roles and had our current generation take place of the pioneers we probably wouldn't have much land to work with.