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Page 18
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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For six weeks each summer, he explored the northwoods, fished its wild waters, absorbed its untamed flavor, and dreamed of the open Canadian expanse, the blank spot on his childhood map, that lay beyond the Huron headlands to the north.
For six weeks each summer, he explored the northwoods, fished its wild waters, absorbed its untamed flavor, and dreamed of the open Canadian expanse, the blank spot on his childhood map, that lay beyond the Huron headlands to the north.
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It was a time of growing public zeal for the wild, and this led to Aldo's decision in his mid-teens to pursue a career in forestry. Carl had hoped that Aldo would follow him in the family business, but he could hardly object to a ...
It was a time of growing public zeal for the wild, and this led to Aldo's decision in his mid-teens to pursue a career in forestry. Carl had hoped that Aldo would follow him in the family business, but he could hardly object to a ...
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It was wild country, barely settled, imposing, diverse; a true wilderness of high alpine meadows; wolves, grizzly bears, and deer; great stands of pine and folded recesses of tangled, semiarid canyons. Leopold arrived on the 26 CURT ...
It was wild country, barely settled, imposing, diverse; a true wilderness of high alpine meadows; wolves, grizzly bears, and deer; great stands of pine and folded recesses of tangled, semiarid canyons. Leopold arrived on the 26 CURT ...
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As the tide turned in New Mexico, Leopold gained recognition in national conservation circles and received in 1917 the Gold Medal Award of Hornaday's Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund. Aldo and Estella had a family by now.
As the tide turned in New Mexico, Leopold gained recognition in national conservation circles and received in 1917 the Gold Medal Award of Hornaday's Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund. Aldo and Estella had a family by now.
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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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