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 viii
... human nature and a recon- struction of human values to help bring them into line with the relatively new ideas about the nature of the environment emerg- ing from ecology and the New Physics . Then , perhaps , we could gradually begin ...
... human nature and a recon- struction of human values to help bring them into line with the relatively new ideas about the nature of the environment emerg- ing from ecology and the New Physics . Then , perhaps , we could gradually begin ...
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... human relationship with nature . But they had done so in essentially religious terms . Leopold's originality lies in his having expressed their moral proposition exclusively in scientific terms — as Wallace Stegner points out in his ...
... human relationship with nature . But they had done so in essentially religious terms . Leopold's originality lies in his having expressed their moral proposition exclusively in scientific terms — as Wallace Stegner points out in his ...
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... human happiness ( " pref- erence satisfaction " in the jargon of contemporary economics ) which prevails in his profession . One of Pister's mentors was A. Starker Leopold , whose teachings and whose father's A Sand County Almanac ...
... human happiness ( " pref- erence satisfaction " in the jargon of contemporary economics ) which prevails in his profession . One of Pister's mentors was A. Starker Leopold , whose teachings and whose father's A Sand County Almanac ...
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... human society , extol the natural wonders of their Selbornes , Waldens , Yosemites , Wisconsins . Aldo Leopold was not a simple man , however simple were his convictions . He lived only sixty - one years , but his birth and death ...
... human society , extol the natural wonders of their Selbornes , Waldens , Yosemites , Wisconsins . Aldo Leopold was not a simple man , however simple were his convictions . He lived only sixty - one years , but his birth and death ...
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... human accomplishments , is admirable in and of itself , but it also offers us a sense of our own potential . A Sand County Almanac allows us to see the world as Aldo Leopold saw it . His view was unique , extraordinary , in some ways ...
... human accomplishments , is admirable in and of itself , but it also offers us a sense of our own potential . A Sand County Almanac allows us to see the world as Aldo Leopold saw it . His view was unique , extraordinary , in some ways ...
Contents
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II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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