{"id":8410,"date":"2013-09-14T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T20:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2013-09-14T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T20:59:48","slug":"aldo-leopld-on-commodifying-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/aldo-leopld-on-commodifying-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"ALDO LEOPLD on COMMODIFYING the LAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect&#8230;Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. 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.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;Aldo Leopold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8411\" alt=\"Aldo-relaxing_color\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Aldo-relaxing_color.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect&#8230;Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9634,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions\/9634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}