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 ix
... less suitable texts for my course in envi- ronmental ethics during the summer of 1971 , but , while the other texts shuffled in and out , A Sand County Almanac remains at the core of my curriculum sixteen years later . By a sort of spon ...
... less suitable texts for my course in envi- ronmental ethics during the summer of 1971 , but , while the other texts shuffled in and out , A Sand County Almanac remains at the core of my curriculum sixteen years later . By a sort of spon ...
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... less original than it is touted to be . Henry David Thoreau and John Muir certainly had argued for a morally charged human relationship with nature . But they had done so in essentially religious terms . Leopold's originality lies in ...
... less original than it is touted to be . Henry David Thoreau and John Muir certainly had argued for a morally charged human relationship with nature . But they had done so in essentially religious terms . Leopold's originality lies in ...
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... less aware of the historical antecedents of the land ethic than we ought to be . The philosophically sensitive reader , on the other hand , may wish that Professor Nash had given more attention to the very great theoretical differences ...
... less aware of the historical antecedents of the land ethic than we ought to be . The philosophically sensitive reader , on the other hand , may wish that Professor Nash had given more attention to the very great theoretical differences ...
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... less sustained argument than " The Land Ethic . " How can land , under science — a most important qualifi- cation — yield an aesthetic harvest ? In " The Land Aesthetic , " I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics ...
... less sustained argument than " The Land Ethic . " How can land , under science — a most important qualifi- cation — yield an aesthetic harvest ? In " The Land Aesthetic , " I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics ...
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... less than a decade old , having been established with funds provided by the family of Roosevelt's chief forester , Gifford Pinchot . Aldo spent four years in New Haven , gaining a bachelor of science degree and a master's degree in ...
... less than a decade old , having been established with funds provided by the family of Roosevelt's chief forester , Gifford Pinchot . Aldo spent four years in New Haven , gaining a bachelor of science degree and a master's degree in ...
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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