Essential Aldo Leopold Quotations and Commentaries

Name: Essential Aldo Leopold Quotations and Commentaries
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ISBN: 9780299165543

ISBN-10: 029916554X

ISBN-13: 9780299165543

Edition: 1999

Authors: Curt D. Meine, Richard L. Knight

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For the first time, the most important quotations of the great conservationist Aldo Leopold, author of "A Sand County Almanac, are gathered in one volume. From conservation education to wildlife ecology, from wilderness protection to soil and water conservation, the writings of Aldo Leopold continue to have profound influence on those seeking to understand the earth and its care. Leopold biographer Curt Meine and noted conservation biologist Richard Knight have assembled this comprehensive collection of quotations from Leopold's extensive and diverse writings, selected and organized to capture the richness and depth of the North American conservation movement. Prominent biologists,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 3/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction


Editors' Note


Acknowledgments


Conservation Science and Practice


Forest Ecology and Management: Axe-in-Hand


Range Ecology and Management: Open Thinking on the Range


Outdoor Recreation: Leopold and the "Still Unlovely Mind"


Wildlife Ecology and Management: Building the Foundations of Wildlife Conservation


Soil and Water Conservation: Traveling in the Right Direction


Agriculture: Preparing for a Sustainable Agriculture


Wilderness: A Place of Humility


Ecological Restoration: The Continuing Challenge of Restoration


Biodiversity and Conservation Biology: Standing on Solid Shoulders


Conservation Policy


Private Land: Aldo Leopold on Private Land


Public Land: Aldo Leopold on Public Land


Advocacy: Throwing Your Weight Around


Economics: Do Economists Know About Lupines?


Environmental Policy: Leopold as Practical Moralist and Pragmatic Policy Analyst


Conservation and Culture


Hunting and Fishing: Hunting for Common Ground


Environmental History: Leopold and the Changing Landscape of History


Education: What Is Education For?


Arts and Sciences: Between Imagination and Observation


Land Esthetics: Through Successive Stages of the Beautiful


Land Ethics: Into Terra Incognita


Leopold's Voice: The Reach of Words


Notes


Quotation Sources


Contributors