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 55
... hand with shovels so sharp they sang and hummed in their wrists as they sliced the earth . And they planted them with care , in groves , points , and stringers , or interspersed with other trees and shrubs . But not all of the pines ...
... hand with shovels so sharp they sang and hummed in their wrists as they sliced the earth . And they planted them with care , in groves , points , and stringers , or interspersed with other trees and shrubs . But not all of the pines ...
Page 57
... hand decisions seemed somehow more difficult , perhaps because of their finality . Where a birch was shading a pine , he usually cut the birch . But what of a veteran oak with pines heading toward its outthrust limbs ? Or a cluster of ...
... hand decisions seemed somehow more difficult , perhaps because of their finality . Where a birch was shading a pine , he usually cut the birch . But what of a veteran oak with pines heading toward its outthrust limbs ? Or a cluster of ...
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... hand to hand , like coined money , but , so to speak , from stomach to stomach . Eating and being eaten , living and dying are what make the biotic community hum . The precepts of the land ethic , like those of all previous accre- tions ...
... hand to hand , like coined money , but , so to speak , from stomach to stomach . Eating and being eaten , living and dying are what make the biotic community hum . The precepts of the land ethic , like those of all previous accre- tions ...
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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