Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysThe first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, however, continued to inspire and inform my thought. Leopold always seemed to have the right intuitions, to be thinking in the right directions. But his ideas were so compacdy expressed that their ...
Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, however, continued to inspire and inform my thought. Leopold always seemed to have the right intuitions, to be thinking in the right directions. But his ideas were so compacdy expressed that their ...
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... Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests, and several shorter articles about Leopold's life and thought.
... Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests, and several shorter articles about Leopold's life and thought.
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However Leopold may have pulled it together, "The Land Ethic" is the distilled essence of his ripe thought. Its expression is extraordinarily condensed and deceptively simple. Like the proverbial iceberg, only the tip of the land 9 ...
However Leopold may have pulled it together, "The Land Ethic" is the distilled essence of his ripe thought. Its expression is extraordinarily condensed and deceptively simple. Like the proverbial iceberg, only the tip of the land 9 ...
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And we know that he thought of himself as an ecologist (as indeed he was) and that he was a personal friend of Charles Elton, who, in the late twenties, articulated, more fully than anyone before, the ecological "community concept" that ...
And we know that he thought of himself as an ecologist (as indeed he was) and that he was a personal friend of Charles Elton, who, in the late twenties, articulated, more fully than anyone before, the ecological "community concept" that ...
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address, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" — dominated American historical thought for the first quarter of the twentieth century, spawning a "frontier school" of scholarship. Since then the thesis has been ...
address, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" — dominated American historical thought for the first quarter of the twentieth century, spawning a "frontier school" of scholarship. Since then the thesis has been ...
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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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