Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysJ. Baird Callicott University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 15 - 308 pages The first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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Page 130
... argument of Sand County , the argument for which Aldo Leopold is famous , is a twofold statement : a descriptive il- lustration and explanation of land communities — what they are , how they work , and how they change — and a closely ...
... argument of Sand County , the argument for which Aldo Leopold is famous , is a twofold statement : a descriptive il- lustration and explanation of land communities — what they are , how they work , and how they change — and a closely ...
Page 137
... argument of Sand County is made ex- plicit the argument from ecosystem as fact and concept to the need for maintaining certain kinds of ecosystems . In one sense , it is an easy argument to follow . Its descriptive and nomothetic ...
... argument of Sand County is made ex- plicit the argument from ecosystem as fact and concept to the need for maintaining certain kinds of ecosystems . In one sense , it is an easy argument to follow . Its descriptive and nomothetic ...
Page 244
... argument has always been the most effective argument , even when it is misapplied , against environ- mental restraints . Thus some citizens of Moab , Utah , and Hanford , Washing- ton , vie for the location of a nuclear waste dump in ...
... argument has always been the most effective argument , even when it is misapplied , against environ- mental restraints . Thus some citizens of Moab , Utah , and Hanford , Washing- ton , vie for the location of a nuclear waste dump in ...
Contents
The Author | 4 |
Aldo Leopolds Early Years | 17 |
Aldo Leopolds Sand Country | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Editor | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0299112306, 9780299112301 |
| Length | 308 pages |
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