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Ed Swann ethics 10-22-01 Aldo Leopold's book, A Sand County Almanac offers insight to an issue that will forever be debated. In the book, he guides the reader through the year at his farm in Wisconsin. The beautiful descriptions of nature at his farm lead up to the land ethic that Leopold proposes. He explains his ideas and views on the various issues of environmental ethics. He takes up every side of the story. …

…the treatment of other people. This reading has enlightened me to realize that if we should treat our land like this, we should treat other people with a lot more respect than is being shown today. I thoroughly enjoyed Leopold's book. It really opened my eyes to some of the issues that we have today. He touched on some really good points and is obviously very in touch with the environmental issues in our world.