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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... understand a book, it is more than a little helpful to become acquainted, at the outset, with its author. Thus the first section of this collection is called "The Author." Here the essays of Curt Meine, Susan Flader, and Roderick Nash ...
... understand a book, it is more than a little helpful to become acquainted, at the outset, with its author. Thus the first section of this collection is called "The Author." Here the essays of Curt Meine, Susan Flader, and Roderick Nash ...
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... understanding of the nature of ecosystems — crucial to the question of our duties regarding them — is firmly grounded in both science and experience. The foreword to A Sand County Almanac (dated March 1948) provides, in my judgment, a ...
... understanding of the nature of ecosystems — crucial to the question of our duties regarding them — is firmly grounded in both science and experience. The foreword to A Sand County Almanac (dated March 1948) provides, in my judgment, a ...
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... understand the changes that bind the past to the future. They help us to appreciate what it is to be alive on this magnificent, improbable planet. Rand Aldo Leopold — the first name was dropped early on — was born in the Mississippi ...
... understand the changes that bind the past to the future. They help us to appreciate what it is to be alive on this magnificent, improbable planet. Rand Aldo Leopold — the first name was dropped early on — was born in the Mississippi ...
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... understand. No "fortuitous concourse of elements" working blindly through any number of millions of years could quite account for why warblers are so beautiful. No mechanistic theory, even bolstered by mutations, has ever quite answered ...
... understand. No "fortuitous concourse of elements" working blindly through any number of millions of years could quite account for why warblers are so beautiful. No mechanistic theory, even bolstered by mutations, has ever quite answered ...
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... understand the delicate equilibrium of the southwestern range. The effort exemplified Leopold's restless curiosity ... understanding the cause and effect that related erosion to overgrazing, flooding, vegetation changes, fire, forest ...
... understand the delicate equilibrium of the southwestern range. The effort exemplified Leopold's restless curiosity ... understanding the cause and effect that related erosion to overgrazing, flooding, vegetation changes, fire, forest ...
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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