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It was rooted in our whole way of doing things — modern technology — and our basic values — humanism and the summum bonum of human happiness, defined as pleasure and measured by money and material accumulation. I was a concerned citizen ...
It was rooted in our whole way of doing things — modern technology — and our basic values — humanism and the summum bonum of human happiness, defined as pleasure and measured by money and material accumulation. I was a concerned citizen ...
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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 his having expressed their moral proposition ...
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 his having expressed their moral proposition ...
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As he recounts in his essay, he began his career taking for granted the Pinchot utilitarian philosophy of "resource management" for human happiness ("preference satisfaction" in the jargon of contemporary economics) which prevails in ...
As he recounts in his essay, he began his career taking for granted the Pinchot utilitarian philosophy of "resource management" for human happiness ("preference satisfaction" in the jargon of contemporary economics) which prevails in ...
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We tend to think of naturalists as simple souls who content themselves in the call and response of the wild, who, blithely removed from human society, extol the natural wonders of their Selbornes, Waldens, Yosemites, Wisconsins.
We tend to think of naturalists as simple souls who content themselves in the call and response of the wild, who, blithely removed from human society, extol the natural wonders of their Selbornes, Waldens, Yosemites, Wisconsins.
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Whether viewed on foot, from a train or rowboat or stagecoach, or on horseback, landscapes were always surveyed with a discriminating eye for their history — natural and human — and for their unique flavor. And it never took long for a ...
Whether viewed on foot, from a train or rowboat or stagecoach, or on horseback, landscapes were always surveyed with a discriminating eye for their history — natural and human — and for their unique flavor. And it never took long for a ...
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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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