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 18
... man , however simple were his convictions . He lived only sixty - one years , but his birth and death bracketed a period of profound change on the American landscape and in our civi- lization . His words endure not because they ignore ...
... man , however simple were his convictions . He lived only sixty - one years , but his birth and death bracketed a period of profound change on the American landscape and in our civi- lization . His words endure not because they ignore ...
Page 19
... man , lanky , unaffected , conscientious — a prairie gentleman . He was the youngest of eight children born to Charles J. J. Leopold and his wife Thus- neld , who was a sister of Marie Starker . Carl Leopold was born in Burlington , but ...
... man , lanky , unaffected , conscientious — a prairie gentleman . He was the youngest of eight children born to Charles J. J. Leopold and his wife Thus- neld , who was a sister of Marie Starker . Carl Leopold was born in Burlington , but ...
Page 26
... man — and for their unique flavor . And it never took long for a particular piece of country to exercise its pull on Leopold . He guarded his freedom jealously — that was , after all , one of the motives behind his choice of career ...
... man — and for their unique flavor . And it never took long for a particular piece of country to exercise its pull on Leopold . He guarded his freedom jealously — that was , after all , one of the motives behind his choice of career ...
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... man- ner in which raw utilitarian motives— " economic determinism " he called it — were coming to dominate development in an en- vironment that was intrinsically sensitive to exploitation and sus- ceptible to damage . In June 1924 , a ...
... man- ner in which raw utilitarian motives— " economic determinism " he called it — were coming to dominate development in an en- vironment that was intrinsically sensitive to exploitation and sus- ceptible to damage . In June 1924 , a ...
Page 36
... man- drained marshlands , fires smoldered in the peat . And over all of this , the veil of the depression still cast its dulling pall . The spring drought did break , and the dust did settle , but the local conditions would prove to be ...
... man- drained marshlands , fires smoldered in the peat . And over all of this , the veil of the depression still cast its dulling pall . The spring drought did break , and the dust did settle , but the local conditions would prove to be ...
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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