abstract:A land ethic (or land ethics) is a philosophy that seeks to guide the actions when humans use or make changes to the land. This specific term was coined by Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) in his book A Sand County Almanac (1949).
Nonetheless, Don Binney was and will always remain a noble example of the best of New Zealand artistic, ecological and spiritual commitment to what, in the U.S., Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and Aldo Leopold were so consistent and outspoken about regarding a landethic.