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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Page 44
... John Muir reminisced more than half a century later , " we were hauled by an ox - team across trackless carex swamps and low rolling hills sparsely dotted with round - headed oaks . " No sooner did they arrive than the boys discovered a ...
... John Muir reminisced more than half a century later , " we were hauled by an ox - team across trackless carex swamps and low rolling hills sparsely dotted with round - headed oaks . " No sooner did they arrive than the boys discovered a ...
Page 45
... John Muir recalled , he bought a half - section of wild land five miles away and started all over again . To what end ? It was a poor land for making money , as John Muir remem- bered it , but rich country for living . Shortly after John ...
... John Muir recalled , he bought a half - section of wild land five miles away and started all over again . To what end ? It was a poor land for making money , as John Muir remem- bered it , but rich country for living . Shortly after John ...
Page 46
... John Muir , there was still the nagging problem : What happens to America when there is no more free land ? Turner called it the problem of the West : " A people composed of heterogeneous materials , with diverse and conflicting ideals ...
... John Muir , there was still the nagging problem : What happens to America when there is no more free land ? Turner called it the problem of the West : " A people composed of heterogeneous materials , with diverse and conflicting ideals ...
Page 48
... John Muir's vision too , but the ambitions of industrious pioneers like his father dictated a different future for the haymarshes . In the dry years of the early 1890s farmers anxious to get ahead tried plowing the haylands for crops ...
... John Muir's vision too , but the ambitions of industrious pioneers like his father dictated a different future for the haymarshes . In the dry years of the early 1890s farmers anxious to get ahead tried plowing the haylands for crops ...
Page 50
... John Muir ) , the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge , the Central Wisconsin Conservation Area , numerous public hunting grounds , and state wildlife refuges , not to men- tion private ventures . In all this ferment it is impossible to ...
... John Muir ) , the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge , the Central Wisconsin Conservation Area , numerous public hunting grounds , and state wildlife refuges , not to men- tion private ventures . In all this ferment it is impossible to ...
Contents
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II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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