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Weed Laws Article on Landscaping (John Marshall Law Review) Page 27 of 27 <br />Laws, however, are only a first step. They offer a means to an end but are never an <br />end themselves. We cannot rest with the enactment of a law and believe that it <br />alone will accomplish the desired goal of a harmonic relationship with Nature. As <br />Dr. Wilson observed: <br />The wise procedure is for law to delay, science to evaluate and famili -arity to <br />preserve. There is an implicit principle of human behavior important to <br />conservation: the better an ecosystem is known, the less likely it will be <br />destroyed. As the Senegalese conservationsist, Baba Dioum has said 'In the <br />end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we <br />understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.'194 <br />If we cannot learn to accept the Land Ethic in our own yards and learn to live with <br />Nature, then how will we ever apply its teaching to the larger world around us. <br />Aldo Leopold said: <br />This [a destroyed prairie remnant] is one little episode in the funeral of native <br />flora, which in turn is one episode in the funeral of the floras of the world. <br />Mechanized man, oblivious of floras, is proud of his progress in cleaning up <br />the landscape on which, willy - nilly, he must live out his days.'`" <br />Hopefully, this type of progress can be held in check and ultimately reversed as <br />natural landscaping continues to spread across the Nation. Local weed laws, a <br />remnant of an age of conformity and misunderstanding, must be reviewed and <br />revised to make way for this change. <br />Great kaki (irâ–ºater <br />EPA Ron* <br />GUN <br />Carr rtie,087. <br />Last Update: July 30, 1997 <br />URL - http: / /www.epa. gov/ glnpo /greenacres/weedlaws/jmlr.html <br />Please contact Danielle Green with your comments. <br />http : / /www. epa. gov / glnpo /greenacres /weedlaws /JMLR.html 2/22/01 <br />