"Aldo Leopold's classic work A Sand County Almanac is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservation books of all time. In it, Leopold sets forth an eloquent plea for the development of a "land ethic" -- a belief that humans have a duty to interact with the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise "the land" in ways that ensure their well-being and survival.For the Health of the Land, a new collection of ..."
"His name is inextricably linked with a single work, " A Sand County Almanac," a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist's bible. This book brings together the best of Leopold's essays."
"Aldo Leopold's classic work A Sand County Almanac is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservation books of all time. In it, Leopold sets forth an eloquent plea for the development of a "land ethic" -- a belief that humans have a duty to interact with the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise "the land" in ways that ensure their well-being and survival.For the Health of the Land, a new collection of ..."
"Luna B. Leopold, ed. Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1953. xiii + 173pp., illus. Reissued in paperback, 1972. (
With Alfred E. Eynon). Avian daybreak and evening song in relation to time and
light intensity. Condor 63:4 (July-Aug 1961), 269-293. [Written by Eynon, based
on field data and unpublished manuscripts of Aldo Leopold.] Dear Herbert. In
Memoirs of a Naturalist, by Herbert L ..."
"Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate.Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness De ..."
"These fifty-nine essays by the author of the environmental classic A Sand County Almanac range from "A Tramp in November", penned in 1904 when Leopold was a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, to "The Ecological Conscience", written in 1947, the year before his death."
"Ten years ago, "The Great New Wilderness Debate" began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. "The Wilderness Debate Rages On" will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate.Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. "The Wilderne ..."
"3 This phrase is used by Seymour Feldman in his introduction to Spinoza's Ethics
(Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics and Selected letters, trans. S. Shirley and ed. S.
Feldman (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982), 9. Pertinent to the present discussion of
Naess's systematization of deep ecology, Feldman writes: “Some of the great
systematic philosophers of the past proceeded to philosophise from an
underlying perception of the way things are—an i ..."
"The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess ..."
"The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess ..."
Companion to A Sand County Almanac(1st Edition) Interpretive and Critical Essays by J. BairdCallicott Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-11234-9, ISBN: 0-299-11234-9
" The subantarctic forests of South America are the world’s southernmost forested ecosystems. The birds have sung in these austral forests for millions of years; the Yahgan and Mapuche peoples have handed down their bird stories from generation to generation for hundreds of years. In Multi-ethnic Bird Guide of the Subantarctic Forests of South America, Ricardo Rozzi and his collaborators present a unique combination of bird guide and cul ..."