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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... importance of a volume such as this and energetically facilitated its completion . I thank Frances Moore Lappé for her thoughtful editorial suggestions on my essay , " The Land Aes- thetic , " and Elizabeth Steinberg , chief editor of ...
... importance of a volume such as this and energetically facilitated its completion . I thank Frances Moore Lappé for her thoughtful editorial suggestions on my essay , " The Land Aes- thetic , " and Elizabeth Steinberg , chief editor of ...
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... important qualifi- cation — yield an aesthetic harvest ? In " The Land Aesthetic , " I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics , natural beauty , taste in natural objects , and so on , that are scattered throughout A Sand ...
... important qualifi- cation — yield an aesthetic harvest ? In " The Land Aesthetic , " I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics , natural beauty , taste in natural objects , and so on , that are scattered throughout A Sand ...
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... important , it also ties many of the essays to the author's life experiences . Hence , it not only reveals the author's own sense of the organic connection of the essays to one another , it unifies them with the odyssey of the author's ...
... important , it also ties many of the essays to the author's life experiences . Hence , it not only reveals the author's own sense of the organic connection of the essays to one another , it unifies them with the odyssey of the author's ...
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... important factor was the destruc- tion of habitat . The ideal of " clean farming " wreaked havoc not only with the farm economy ( and , as would soon become clear , with the soil itself ) , but destroyed the coverts that small and up ...
... important factor was the destruc- tion of habitat . The ideal of " clean farming " wreaked havoc not only with the farm economy ( and , as would soon become clear , with the soil itself ) , but destroyed the coverts that small and up ...
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... important as we come to understand that freedom is a function of perception ; that we are free to the degree that we are aware of , understand , and can respond to the forces that shape our lives . Ignorance of environmental processes ...
... important as we come to understand that freedom is a function of perception ; that we are free to the degree that we are aware of , understand , and can respond to the forces that shape our lives . Ignorance of environmental processes ...
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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