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The Cornell University horticulturist , Liberty Hyde Bailey , concluded three decades of what he termed a “ biocentric ” approach to his subject with the publication , in 1915 , of The Holy Earth . The book followed a well - worn ...
The Cornell University horticulturist , Liberty Hyde Bailey , concluded three decades of what he termed a “ biocentric ” approach to his subject with the publication , in 1915 , of The Holy Earth . The book followed a well - worn ...
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The argument that the earth was man's “ physical provider ” and hence worthy of ethical consideration left him unsatisfied . He wondered if there was not a “ closer and deeper relation ” to nature based on the idea that the earth was ...
The argument that the earth was man's “ physical provider ” and hence worthy of ethical consideration left him unsatisfied . He wondered if there was not a “ closer and deeper relation ” to nature based on the idea that the earth was ...
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With his superior stylistic skills Leopold came to the Russian's aid in expressing the concept : the earth was alive , " vastly less alive than ourselves in degree , but vastly greater than ourselves in time and space — a being that was ...
With his superior stylistic skills Leopold came to the Russian's aid in expressing the concept : the earth was alive , " vastly less alive than ourselves in degree , but vastly greater than ourselves in time and space — a being that was ...
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Contents
The Author | 4 |
Aldo Leopolds Early Years | 17 |
Aldo Leopolds Sand Country | 40 |
Copyright | |
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| 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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