Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 1 - 320 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 9
... beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii). Leopold's ...
... beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii). Leopold's ...
Page 18
... his daughter a private education, a love of natural beauty, and a thorough immersion in German romanticism. Her mother, Marie, taught her the social graces that a young lady required and the homemaking skills — Clara 18 CURT MEINE.
... his daughter a private education, a love of natural beauty, and a thorough immersion in German romanticism. Her mother, Marie, taught her the social graces that a young lady required and the homemaking skills — Clara 18 CURT MEINE.
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... beauty of the setting and the complement of family qualities go a long way toward explaining the interests, creative tensions, and well-defined character traits that Aldo carried into his adulthood. Here was beauty and business, the ...
... beauty of the setting and the complement of family qualities go a long way toward explaining the interests, creative tensions, and well-defined character traits that Aldo carried into his adulthood. Here was beauty and business, the ...
Page 24
... beauty, but not one of such dazzling plumage and bearing as the Blackburnian. The upper parts and wings are jet black, with various white markings, especially in the wings and tail, the underparts pure white, heavily streaked with black ...
... beauty, but not one of such dazzling plumage and bearing as the Blackburnian. The upper parts and wings are jet black, with various white markings, especially in the wings and tail, the underparts pure white, heavily streaked with black ...
Page 57
... beauty — that he saw as the basis of a land ethic. But ethical values were a guide for individual decisions, not a substitute for them, and Leopold realized this most keenly when he stood with axe in hand. Conservation, he wrote, "is a ...
... beauty — that he saw as the basis of a land ethic. But ethical values were a guide for individual decisions, not a substitute for them, and Leopold realized this most keenly when he stood with axe in hand. Conservation, he wrote, "is a ...
Contents
| 3 | |
| 15 | |
II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Author | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299112330, 9780299112332 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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