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The book, A Sand County Almanac, written by Aldo Leopold touches ethical issues and speaks his voice clearly and plainly. Leopold bathes the reader in multiple main ideas that all focus around environmental ethics. He portrays these ideas through argument, description and explanation. From the realization of how the land is a community of living things we can then appreciate the knowledge obtained from ecology. This allows us to become aware of the importance of the conservation of land and the actual knowledge that can be found within a community conjoined with ours.
Ethics rest upon a single premise that an individual is of a community of interdependent parts. A human being in the modern world finds it instinctual to compete amongst his peers for a place, or recognition. The only boundary that keeps people from beating each other over the head with a lead pipe is ethics. Ethics prompt one to cooperate amongst peers. In A Sand County Almanac, Leopold made it clear that the......

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