A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold (English) Pap

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With this spectacularly illustrated gift edition, a new generation of readers can walk beside one of America's most respected naturalists as he conveys the beauty of a marsh before sunrise or the wealth of history to be found in an ancient oak.

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A vivid philosophical tour de force that initiated ecological thought and writing as we know it today'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,' begins Aldo Leopold's totemic work of ecological thought. Ranging from lyrical observations of the changing seasons over a year on his Wisconsin farm to his hugely influential idea of a 'land ethic' signifying moral equilibrium between humans and all other life on earth, A Sand County Almanac changed perceptions of the natural world and helped give birth to the modern conservation movement.

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Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) was a forester and conservationist whose writings on wildlife ecology sowed the seeds of contemporary environmental thought.

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Wise and lyrical meditations on environmental ethics, human and natural history, and the passage of time. Some measure of how fiercely good it is: a well-read, retired U.S. Army colonel once told me that he considered Leopold to be better than Shakespeare * Helen Macdonald *These beautiful essays, based on the restoration of an exhausted 80-acre farm in the sand country of central Wisconsin, are full of insights rooted in intelligent humility that inform naturalists to this day * Isabella Tree *A classic ... there are moments of soft beauty [and] his epigrams are whipcrack smart -- Robert Macfarlane * Wall Street Journal *A trenchant book, full of vigor and bite * The New York Times *One of the seminal works of the environmental movement * Boston Globe *

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Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac is a seminal work of wildlife ecology, first published in 1949.

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Wise and lyrical meditations on environmental ethics, human and natural history, and the passage of time. Some measure of how fiercely good it is: a well-read, retired U.S. Army colonel once told me that he considered Leopold to be better than Shakespeare

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Wise and lyrical meditations on environmental ethics, human and natural history, and the passage of time. Some measure of how fiercely good it is: a well-read, retired U.S. Army colonel once told me that he considered Leopold to be better than Shakespeare-- Helen Macdonald These beautiful essays, based on the restoration of an exhausted 80-acre farm in the sand country of central Wisconsin, are full of insights rooted in intelligent humility that inform naturalists to this day-- Isabella Tree A classic ... there are moments of soft beauty [and] his epigrams are whipcrack smart--Robert Macfarlane, Wall Street Journal A trenchant book, full of vigor and bite-- The New York Times One of the seminal works of the environmental movement-- Boston Globe

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A vivid philosophical tour de force that initiated ecological thought and writing as we know it today

Details ISBN0241402999 Author Aldo Leopold Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 0241402999 ISBN-13 9780241402993 Format Paperback Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle And Sketches Here and There DEWEY 508.775 Pages 208 Publication Date 2020-03-26 Language English UK Release Date 2020-03-26 Alternative 9780241403006 Audience General NZ Release Date 2020-03-25 AU Release Date 2020-03-25 We've got this

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