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
... 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 to ...
... 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 to ...
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... nature literature . " Tallmadge treats it , rather , as a specimen of " natural history " and , comparing Sand County to other classics of that genre , exposes the principal ingredients of its compact style . Finally , in this section ...
... nature literature . " Tallmadge treats it , rather , as a specimen of " natural history " and , comparing Sand County to other classics of that genre , exposes the principal ingredients of its compact style . Finally , in this section ...
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... Natural ( as opposed to artistic or , more technically , ar- tifactual ) aesthetics is a persistent concern of the author of A Sand County Almanac . The " esthetic harvest " which land " is ca- pable , under science , of contributing to ...
... Natural ( as opposed to artistic or , more technically , ar- tifactual ) aesthetics is a persistent concern of the author of A Sand County Almanac . The " esthetic harvest " which land " is ca- pable , under science , of contributing to ...
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... nature , " the idea that nature as a whole has rights is , from a philosophical point of view , out of the question . Rights are claims expressed by , or on behalf of , moral patients . " Nature , " per se , is too ill - defined an ...
... nature , " the idea that nature as a whole has rights is , from a philosophical point of view , out of the question . Rights are claims expressed by , or on behalf of , moral patients . " Nature , " per se , is too ill - defined an ...
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... natural , wild , and free " ( vii ) . He became , finally , a naturalist . We label him as such , but we also need to qualify the label . We tend to think of naturalists as simple souls who content themselves in the call and response of ...
... natural , wild , and free " ( vii ) . He became , finally , a naturalist . We label him as such , but we also need to qualify the label . We tend to think of naturalists as simple souls who content themselves in the call and response of ...
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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