Research On Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Aesthetics

Aldo Leopold,American ecologist,forest officer and environmentalist,known as the "father of wildlife management" and "father of land ethics" in the United States.A Sand County Almanac is Leopold’s masterpiece,known as the "American Resource Protection Bible",its writing style is simple and straightforward,its ideas on modern environmental ethics,wilderness protection movement and environmental aesthetics has a heavy impact.This article mainly from the perspective of environmental aesthetics to study A Sand County Almanac,Through the analysis of the theoretical basis,the main content and the aesthetic expression of Leopold ’s environmental aesthetics,this paper explores the system structure of Leopold ’s environmental aesthetics and further explains its significance in environmental aesthetics.The paper is divided into three chapters:The first chapter introduces Leopold’s theory of environmental aesthetics,that is,land ethics.Mainly includes three aspects,Leopold’s expansion of ethics,Leopold’s ecological consciousness,and Leopold to develop a new ethical value scale.First,Leopold proposes the concept of land community,that human beings are common members of the land community,advocates the establishment of human and land members of the other members of the ethical relationship.Second,Leopold absorbes the knowledge of a large number of ecological sciences and constructes a pyramid model of the biota,which requires humans to recognize the integrity and linkages of ecosystems and to focus on the health and survival of all members of the biota pyramid The Thirdly,Leopold denies the economic value of the traditional nature conservation movement,establishes a new ethical value scale,that is,when one thing is conducive to the harmony,stability and beauty of the ecosystem,it is right,if not,it is wrong.The second chapter explores the main contents of Leopold’s environmental aesthetics,including Leopold’s view of nature,Leopold’s land aesthetics,Leopold’s emphasis on the wilderness.First,Leopold denies the traditional view of nature,he believes that nature is neither human masters,nor human servants,but human equality partners,his view of nature is a kind of ecological civilization under the natural view.Second,Leopold is from the aesthetic of nature to the natural morality,and he is from the ecological point of view of the natural aesthetic,his land aesthetics is both an ethical aesthetics,but also an ecological aesthetics.Third,Leopold discusses the multiple values of the wilderness,the father of environmental ethics Ralston inherited and developed his theory of wilderness.The third chapter is about the aesthetic expression of Leopold ’s environmental aesthetics and its influence.First,in the A Sand County Almanac Leopold not only builds the land ethical thought,but also writes a large number of natural aesthetic experience,this expression of the future of natural literature,natural notes writing.Second,in the A Sand County Almanac,Leopold,through criticizing the literary works Odyssey,founds one of the root causes of ecological crisis,that is,the dualism,which lays the foundation for the emergence of ecological criticism.Thirdly,in the A Sand County Almanac,Leopold constructs the ethic ideas of land in a rational spirit,but uses the natural aesthetic experience to express these thoughts.This expression is the later appearance of "narrative academic" Buried foreshadowed.Through the elaboration of the theoretical basis,the main content and the aesthetic expression,the author hopes to have a holistic grasp of Leopold ’s environmental aesthetics.