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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2311 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Justin Murphy: On turning left into darkness

That's certainly a problem with Aldo Leopold.

    “When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver; he could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker; he could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.”