Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysThe first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac has brought a generation to a groundswell change in environmental consciousness — and conscience. For all its charm and apparent simplicity, A Sand County Almanac is as incisive and complex as it is ...
Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac has brought a generation to a groundswell change in environmental consciousness — and conscience. For all its charm and apparent simplicity, A Sand County Almanac is as incisive and complex as it is ...
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I trusted his judgment; he was a senior majoring in Resource Management for Environmental Quality and surely knew more about these things than I. Besides, I was staring into the yawning emptiness of a sixteen-week semester, ...
I trusted his judgment; he was a senior majoring in Resource Management for Environmental Quality and surely knew more about these things than I. Besides, I was staring into the yawning emptiness of a sixteen-week semester, ...
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and environmental limitations which were beginning to make themselves palpably plain. Anything short of a philosophical overhaul of prevailing attitudes and values toward nature seemed to me then, as now, to treat the symptoms of the ...
and environmental limitations which were beginning to make themselves palpably plain. Anything short of a philosophical overhaul of prevailing attitudes and values toward nature seemed to me then, as now, to treat the symptoms of the ...
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The fourth is a denouement; it considers the impact of A Sand County Almanac on public resource management, on American environmental consciousness more generally, and as crystalized in a state-of-the-art example of contemporary ...
The fourth is a denouement; it considers the impact of A Sand County Almanac on public resource management, on American environmental consciousness more generally, and as crystalized in a state-of-the-art example of contemporary ...
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ally, and as crystalized in a state-of-the-art example of contemporary environmental philosophy. Each section, moreover, is organized so as to reflect the flow of the whole. The first essay of each section is so ordered because, ...
ally, and as crystalized in a state-of-the-art example of contemporary environmental philosophy. Each section, moreover, is organized so as to reflect the flow of the whole. The first essay of each section is so ordered because, ...
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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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