Reflective Essay: What Is A Stewardship?

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I selected to talk about this because of my established feeling for which I was taught to nurture the land. I grew up for a while on a ranch in Coffeeville, KS during my time there I was educated from not just traditional schooling but was also educated on nature and what requirements our world has and how we can respect the animals, plants, and land around us. I have a profound passion for the land around me and have great distaste for people who fail to respect what has been entrusted to them.
We continue to just ignore and fail to educate one and other on the risks of pollution levels, rights and offences, environmental sustainability and quality. For the interest of the future generations. People can have no duties to sand, rivers, nor
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Most humans do not understand the benefits that come from our land and how our day to day actions can be utterly fatal for our land. People will say of course we should be good stewards but stewardship is very broad and does not place a face we can care for. We need a kind of primary target for an ethic. I feel as though to care for our land is to care for all nature. Stewardship is too broad of an action and not directly concentrated in anything specific. The definition of stewardship is the conducting, supervising, or managing of something; especially: the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one 's care. Such as the inheritance of land or even the purchase of land. This is where I get management from the definition of stewardship and since we are talking about land I say its land management. So I can say be a good steward of our land but stewardship is not my ethic exactly it’s just a piece. My Ethic is Land Ethics. Our societies deliberately and extensively rebuilds the natural environment and tries to recreate the natural environment in the rural and municipal environments in which they reside. If we left less of an impact on our land in the first place we would not consistently have to try and rebuild something that was already

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