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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Page 24
Dressed in his knee boots and winter coat, bandanna around his head, plant collection box slung over his shoulder, walking stick in hand, Aldo set forth on tramps to Princeton, Washington's Crossing, Trenton — sometimes as often as four ...
Dressed in his knee boots and winter coat, bandanna around his head, plant collection box slung over his shoulder, walking stick in hand, Aldo set forth on tramps to Princeton, Washington's Crossing, Trenton — sometimes as often as four ...
Page 44
There were wheat, corn, and potatoes to plant and then to hoe, stovewood to chop, fence rails to split, and a new frame house to finish before the rest of the family arrived from Scotland in the fall. Then the harvest: cutting, ...
There were wheat, corn, and potatoes to plant and then to hoe, stovewood to chop, fence rails to split, and a new frame house to finish before the rest of the family arrived from Scotland in the fall. Then the harvest: cutting, ...
Page 48
To Leopold looking back, these haymeadow days seemed the Arcadian age for marsh dwellers: "Man and beast, plant and soil lived on and with each other in mutual toleration, to the mutual benefit of all. The marsh might have kept on ...
To Leopold looking back, these haymeadow days seemed the Arcadian age for marsh dwellers: "Man and beast, plant and soil lived on and with each other in mutual toleration, to the mutual benefit of all. The marsh might have kept on ...
Page 52
... the land and the plants and animals that grow upon it.12 The idea had evolved during his boyhood on the Mississippi, his years as a forester in the Southwest, and his early contact with the land use problems of central Wisconsin.
... the land and the plants and animals that grow upon it.12 The idea had evolved during his boyhood on the Mississippi, his years as a forester in the Southwest, and his early contact with the land use problems of central Wisconsin.
Page 53
His first recorded act as a landowner was to plant a food patch for wildlife, and his journal entries that summer, scant as they were, did not fail to mention the height of the sorghum. The shack was a family enterprise to which each ...
His first recorded act as a landowner was to plant a food patch for wildlife, and his journal entries that summer, scant as they were, did not fail to mention the height of the sorghum. The shack was a family enterprise to which each ...
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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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