What are Your Ethics Towards the Environment?

In today's world, when people think of ethics they think of doing the right thing or helping someone. There are different types of ethics too, such as social ethics and business ethics. Many have not ever thought of environmental ethics. I know I have not before. After Aldo Leopold's reading, I had a better understanding of having ethics towards the land.
When people think of the land we live on, they just think of the resources like water, food, and shelter they can take from it. Many people do not respect the land for what it is. We, as human beings, take many things for granted including the environment. People have to become on with the land.
Even though people own some land, it does not mean that they are entitled to destroy it. We need to be ethically responsible for our decisions we make towards our land. We are not only destroying the land but also the soil for growing crops, homes for the wild animals, contaminating our drinking water, and many other environmental issues.
Do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes we do, but what exactly is it that we love and care about? These days' people have become more materialistic and do not care for the land like back in the days. A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these resources, but it does affirm their right to continued existance, and at least in spots, their continued existance in a natural state.