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Page 9
... and the "beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii).
... and the "beauty" (as well as integrity and stability) of the biotic community is included among its most valued qualities in the famous summary moral maxim of the last section of Sand County's last essay, "The Land Ethic" (viii).
Page 10
Like the proverbial iceberg, only the tip of the land ethic shows above the verbal surface of Leopold's essay. ... articulated, more fully than anyone before, the ecological "community concept" that is so central to the land ethic.
Like the proverbial iceberg, only the tip of the land ethic shows above the verbal surface of Leopold's essay. ... articulated, more fully than anyone before, the ecological "community concept" that is so central to the land ethic.
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... between man and land, and a place little known and undistinguished save as it stimulated in that person and others a heightened sensitivity and deepened respect for the larger community of life. It was a coming together in maturity.
... between man and land, and a place little known and undistinguished save as it stimulated in that person and others a heightened sensitivity and deepened respect for the larger community of life. It was a coming together in maturity.
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Overnight, projects were underway on classification and zoning of land; resettlement of families from submarginal farms to areas that might support productive agriculture and a self-sustaining community life; plugging of drainage ...
Overnight, projects were underway on classification and zoning of land; resettlement of families from submarginal farms to areas that might support productive agriculture and a self-sustaining community life; plugging of drainage ...
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The land had been heedlessly ravaged by men who regarded it as a commodity to be used and then abandoned. Leopold, by contrast, regarded himself as a participating citizen of the land community, seeking to restore it to ecological ...
The land had been heedlessly ravaged by men who regarded it as a commodity to be used and then abandoned. Leopold, by contrast, regarded himself as a participating citizen of the land community, seeking to restore it to ecological ...
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Contents
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| 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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