After reading what Aldo Leopold has to say about his concepts that community is the, or will be the key to obtaining some kind of land ethic. It seems that we must value the land because it helps us to live and survive and that currently we do not. We only see the land as property and something that is disposable when in truth it is not. He also seems to stress that conservation is the right path and that it is the common ground that lies between men and land. When talking about animals such as birds, Leopold says, “One basic weakness in a conservation system… is that most members of the land community have no economic value… When one of these non- economic categories is threatened and if we happen to love it, we invent subterfuges to give it economic importance” (pgs. 166-167). This point he makes, I completely agree with. In today’s world it seems that only the resources that can make money or are an important process to make money are valued more than anything that does not encourage the cycle. I agree with Leopold, that we need to value the land more and not take it for granted, because we are lucky to have it in the first place. Leopold also says,” quit thinking about decent land- use as solely an economic problem.” (pg. 172). I believe that Aldo Leopold is right that conservation is the stepping stone for having a better land ethic, how we should go on to do that on a global scale is a puzzler to me, but I think if we at least can start doing it more in the U.S. we may yet find a way to spread it to other countries.