 | 1953 - Broj stranica: 1224
...structure. Its functioning depends on the cooperation and competition of its diverse parts. Land, then, is not merely soil. It is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. The interdependence between the complex structure of the land and its smooth functioning as an energy... | |
 | J. Baird Callicott - 1987 - Broj stranica: 322
...and degrade into entropic equilibrium any remaining energy. According to this paradigm 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; . . . but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund... | |
 | Peter S. Wenz - 1988 - Broj stranica: 388
...growth, maintenance, reproduction, and movement of living things in the biotic pyramid. "Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing...conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil."35 One food chain can replace another. In the American Midwest, the chain, "soil-oak-deer-Indian.... | |
 | J. Baird Callicott - 1989 - Broj stranica: 340
...of the mixed community. Most generally and abstractly described, the ecosystem is, to quote Leopold, "a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals." 14 The currency, in other words, of the economy of nature is solar energy captured upon incidence by... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - Broj stranica: 930
...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... | |
 | Hans Huth - 1990 - Broj stranica: 368
...which is essential but rather the philosophy underlying its application. Land is not merely soil but a "fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals" in relation to which man must develop an "ecological conscience," or in other words, change his role... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - 1992 - Broj stranica: 400
...has given us at least one certainty; the trend of evolution is to elaborate 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, some is... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 1991 - Broj stranica: 283
...capable, under science, of contributing to culture. Even more, land was "not merely soil" but rather "a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals." "Food chains" were "the living channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return[ed] it to the soil."84... | |
 | Steven C. Rockefeller, John C. Elder - 1992 - Broj stranica: 240
...include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.2" I66 Leopold further argues that "land. , . is not merely soil; it is a fountain of...conduct energy upward ; death and decay return it to the soil."1' So defined land constitutes what Leopold termed "the biotic community." In his ethical vision... | |
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Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. Food chains are the living channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. 
