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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... less suitable texts for my course in environmental ethics during the summer of 1971, but, while the other texts shuffled in and out, A Sand County Almanac remains at the core of my curriculum sixteen years later. By a sort of ...
... less suitable texts for my course in environmental ethics during the summer of 1971, but, while the other texts shuffled in and out, A Sand County Almanac remains at the core of my curriculum sixteen years later. By a sort of ...
Page 6
... less original than it is touted to be. 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 ...
... less original than it is touted to be. 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 ...
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... less aware of the historical antecedents of the land ethic than we ought to be. The philosophically sensitive reader, on the other hand, may wish that Professor Nash had given more attention to the very great theoretical differences ...
... less aware of the historical antecedents of the land ethic than we ought to be. The philosophically sensitive reader, on the other hand, may wish that Professor Nash had given more attention to the very great theoretical differences ...
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... less sustained argument than "The Land Ethic." How can land, under science — a most important qualification — yield an aesthetic harvest? In "The Land Aesthetic," I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics, natural beauty ...
... less sustained argument than "The Land Ethic." How can land, under science — a most important qualification — yield an aesthetic harvest? In "The Land Aesthetic," I sift through the other remarks on natural aesthetics, natural beauty ...
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... less than a decade old, having been established with funds provided by the family of Roosevelt's chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Aldo spent four years in New Haven, gaining a bachelor of science degree and a master's degree in forestry ...
... less than a decade old, having been established with funds provided by the family of Roosevelt's chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Aldo spent four years in New Haven, gaining a bachelor of science degree and a master's degree in forestry ...
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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