...continuous flow of energy throughout the multiple beings that constitute the earth, even the universe: It is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit...energy upward; death and decay return it to the soiL The circuit is not closed...; but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund...

...as embodied energy was a point well noted by Aldo Leopold. He characterized the economy of nature as "a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals" (Leopold 1966, 253). The economic process (production followed by consumption) is entropie. In other...

...parts as well as the mysterious energy interconnecting those parts. Recall Leopold's words: Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing...conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil.64 covers this interconnectedness and it is this discovery that transforms one's ordinary conscience...

...example, after Leopold introduces "the hiotic pyramid" as "a symbol of land." he writes: Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing...energy upward: death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed: some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added by absorption from the...

...at least one certainty: the trend of evolution is to elaborate and diversify the biota. Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing...energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added by absorption from the...

...ecological community as a whole. The land, of course, for Leopold, is not merely soil but is, rather, a "fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.... The circuit is not closed .. . but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund...

...it, as if our feet were not always on the ground. "Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a foundation of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants,...energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil" (p. 231). Abundance in the earth itself, land, sky, air, and water, together with the creatures and...

...at least one certainty: the trend of evolution is to elaborate and diversify the biota. Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing...circuit of soils, plants, and animals. Food chains arc the living channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit...

...under way, which shifted the attention of ecologists from organisms to, in Aldo Leopold s words, the "fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals." Initiated by Leopold and Lindeman, the reorientation actually represented a revolution in the history...

...at least one certainty: the trend of evolution is to elaborate and diversify the biota. Land, then, y V i j W Z [ } ~ The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added by absorption from the...