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
... mind the world he saw without . All of us do the same , but few of us have the desire , opportunity , or discipline to do it so thoroughly . Moreover , per- ception for Leopold was no mere aesthetic exercise , but an ac- tive , creative ...
... mind the world he saw without . All of us do the same , but few of us have the desire , opportunity , or discipline to do it so thoroughly . Moreover , per- ception for Leopold was no mere aesthetic exercise , but an ac- tive , creative ...
Page 19
... mind and spir- ited personality might have taken her far from Burlington . In the 1880s , though , choices were few , and she remained at home on Prospect Hill , where eventually she fell in love with her itinerant cousin , Carl Leopold ...
... mind and spir- ited personality might have taken her far from Burlington . In the 1880s , though , choices were few , and she remained at home on Prospect Hill , where eventually she fell in love with her itinerant cousin , Carl Leopold ...
Page 23
... mind when he saw that there were a hundred - odd species of warblers , each bedecked like to the rainbow , and each performing yearly sundry thousands of miles of migration about which scientists wrote wisely but did not understand . No ...
... mind when he saw that there were a hundred - odd species of warblers , each bedecked like to the rainbow , and each performing yearly sundry thousands of miles of migration about which scientists wrote wisely but did not understand . No ...
Page 27
... mind . Three decades later he would write about them ( " On Top , " " Escudilla , " ' Think- ing Like A Mountain " ) with a combination of celebration , sor- row , and regret : celebration of a land of wonder , sorrow that some of that ...
... mind . Three decades later he would write about them ( " On Top , " " Escudilla , " ' Think- ing Like A Mountain " ) with a combination of celebration , sor- row , and regret : celebration of a land of wonder , sorrow that some of that ...
Page 28
... mind than grazing per- mits and sheep driveways . He had met and fallen seriously in love with Estella Bergere , a daughter in one of New Mexico's most prominent and powerful families . Her mother was one of the celebrated Lunas , a ...
... mind than grazing per- mits and sheep driveways . He had met and fallen seriously in love with Estella Bergere , a daughter in one of New Mexico's most prominent and powerful families . Her mother was one of the celebrated Lunas , a ...
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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