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I trusted his judgment; he was a senior majoring in Resource Management for Environmental Quality and surely knew more about these things than I. Besides, I was staring into the yawning emptiness of a sixteen-week semester, ...
I trusted his judgment; he was a senior majoring in Resource Management for Environmental Quality and surely knew more about these things than I. Besides, I was staring into the yawning emptiness of a sixteen-week semester, ...
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The land ethic is informed not only by evolution — which discloses, among other pertinent things, a bond of kinship between mankind and the "higher" "lower animals" — but by ecology, a science not yet even identified as such when Darwin ...
The land ethic is informed not only by evolution — which discloses, among other pertinent things, a bond of kinship between mankind and the "higher" "lower animals" — but by ecology, a science not yet even identified as such when Darwin ...
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Instead, he grew up in close contact with the outdoors, and his parents encouraged his love for "things natural, wild, and free" (vii). He became, finally, a naturalist. We label him as such, but we also need to qualify the label.
Instead, he grew up in close contact with the outdoors, and his parents encouraged his love for "things natural, wild, and free" (vii). He became, finally, a naturalist. We label him as such, but we also need to qualify the label.
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thing — butterfly weed, tamarack, wahoo and oak, june-grass and sideoats, penstemon and puccoon, pipsissewa and pasques. All five Leopold children pitched in. Starker built grape tangles for the birds, and for the family the one ...
thing — butterfly weed, tamarack, wahoo and oak, june-grass and sideoats, penstemon and puccoon, pipsissewa and pasques. All five Leopold children pitched in. Starker built grape tangles for the birds, and for the family the one ...
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In the snowy stillness of a midwinter evening when "the hush of elemental sadness lies heavy upon every living thing," there were Leopold's pines standing ramrod straight under their burden of snow, and in the dusk beyond he could sense ...
In the snowy stillness of a midwinter evening when "the hush of elemental sadness lies heavy upon every living thing," there were Leopold's pines standing ramrod straight under their burden of snow, and in the dusk beyond he could sense ...
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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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