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
... thought . Leopold always seemed to have the right intuitions , to be thinking in the right direc- tions . But his ideas were so compactly expressed that their full implications were not evident . I tried to unpack and air out Leopold's ...
... thought . Leopold always seemed to have the right intuitions , to be thinking in the right direc- tions . But his ideas were so compactly expressed that their full implications were not evident . I tried to unpack and air out Leopold's ...
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... thought . But although A Sand County Almanac is ubiquitously quoted and the land ethic frequently invoked , essays devoted to a patient study of the book as a whole or to its capstone essay , " The Land Ethic , " may literally be ...
... thought . But although A Sand County Almanac is ubiquitously quoted and the land ethic frequently invoked , essays devoted to a patient study of the book as a whole or to its capstone essay , " The Land Ethic , " may literally be ...
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... have pulled it together , " The Land Ethic " is the distilled essence of his ripe thought . Its ex- pression is extraordinarily condensed and deceptively simple . Like the proverbial iceberg , only the tip of the Introduction.
... have pulled it together , " The Land Ethic " is the distilled essence of his ripe thought . Its ex- pression is extraordinarily condensed and deceptively simple . Like the proverbial iceberg , only the tip of the Introduction.
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... thought of himself as an ecologist ( as indeed he was ) and that he was a personal friend of Charles Elton , who , in the late twenties , articulated , more fully than anyone before , the ecological " com- munity concept " that is so ...
... thought of himself as an ecologist ( as indeed he was ) and that he was a personal friend of Charles Elton , who , in the late twenties , articulated , more fully than anyone before , the ecological " com- munity concept " that is so ...
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... thought for the first quarter of the twentieth century , spawning a " frontier school " of scholarship . Since then the thesis has been subjected to repeated criticism and revision , but the frequency and intensity of the dis- cussion ...
... thought for the first quarter of the twentieth century , spawning a " frontier school " of scholarship . Since then the thesis has been subjected to repeated criticism and revision , but the frequency and intensity of the dis- cussion ...
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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