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The Land Ethic

A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There (1949)

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When god-like Odysseus returned from the wars in Troy, he hanged all on one rope a dozen slave-girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehavior during his absence.

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© 2014 Forster O. Ndubisi

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Leopold, A. (2014). The Land Ethic. In: Ndubisi, F.O. (eds) The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-491-8_12

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