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 17
... River lay ice - locked in its winter channel . Yet , in Leopold's eyes , no land was without promise . " In country , as in people , " he once wrote , " a plain ex- terior often conceals hidden riches , to perceive which requires much ...
... River lay ice - locked in its winter channel . Yet , in Leopold's eyes , no land was without promise . " In country , as in people , " he once wrote , " a plain ex- terior often conceals hidden riches , to perceive which requires much ...
Page 18
... River town of Burlington , Iowa , on January 11 , 1887. He was the oldest of Carl and Clara Leopold's four children , three boys and a girl . The family lived in a stately Victorian home atop Prospect Hill , one of several limestone ...
... River town of Burlington , Iowa , on January 11 , 1887. He was the oldest of Carl and Clara Leopold's four children , three boys and a girl . The family lived in a stately Victorian home atop Prospect Hill , one of several limestone ...
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... River bottoms — with the eager- ness and curiosity of an instinctive woodsman . When the time came for Carl to make his way in the world , he went east to Bur- lington to attend business school , and he eventually became a traveling ...
... River bottoms — with the eager- ness and curiosity of an instinctive woodsman . When the time came for Carl to make his way in the world , he went east to Bur- lington to attend business school , and he eventually became a traveling ...
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... river from Burlington . In the same essay , he explained the constraints his father had placed on him while hunting partridge . " When my father gave me the shotgun , he said I might hunt partridges with it , but that I might not shoot ...
... river from Burlington . In the same essay , he explained the constraints his father had placed on him while hunting partridge . " When my father gave me the shotgun , he said I might hunt partridges with it , but that I might not shoot ...
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... River . It was apparently here that he and his fellow cruiser shot the mother wolf that figures so prominently in " Thinking Like A Mountain . " 12 But it would be years , and many an antiwolf campaign later , before he would come to ...
... River . It was apparently here that he and his fellow cruiser shot the mother wolf that figures so prominently in " Thinking Like A Mountain . " 12 But it would be years , and many an antiwolf campaign later , before he would come 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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