Introduction

First day of Honors Colloquium Class. At first I wasn't too sure what to expect. But as the class went on I started to realize that it wouldn't be so bad. Seems as though I will be learning a lot about myself and the environment. 


I read the assigned homework. I found it interesting, since this semester I am taking an Ethics course. So far in my ethics class we have only started talking about the difference between morality and ethics. So reading this excerpt was an interesting addition to what I had been learning so far.


The Land Ethic, by Aldo Leopold


"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."- Leopold


Funny how he considers conservation harmony between men and land. I mean land has always been the man's tool for survival. Without the land man would not have food to eat, or materials to build shelter, and as time and technology advances, without the land we would not have what we now consider basics, paper, oil, and even gum. Yet, currently we are not living in harmony with the land. Better yet, this can be compared to the time of slavery, where we the people are the proud owners, and the land is the overworked, underpaid slave. We exploit it for all its good, yet we pay it back so poorly, and more often than not we don't pay it back at all.


So I dare ask myself, if we were able to overcome our own issue of slavery, how long will it be until we set the land free?