Aldo Leopold

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and a final section in which Leopold addresses the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation. As the forerunner of such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, and Robert Finch's The Primal Place, this classic work remains as relevant today as it was sixty-five years ago.

Written by Aldo Leopold, this book is a set of informal essays during his long years of observation and returning to the land and the nature. His beautiful words keep down different scenery at his farm in each month of a year, and states of earth and nature in several other states. Description of some local stories is also included. His opinion of land ethic is summarized too. The book has rich and interesting content, and would make readers realize interdependence between people and land.

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands, Aldo Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the natural landscape, and describes for the first time the far-reaching phenomenon now known as 'trophic cascades'.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

To those who know the grace of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this posthumous collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. These daily journal entries on hunting, fishing and exploring, written in camp during his many field trips in lower California, New Mexico, Canada, and Wisconsin, indicate the source of Leopold's ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. The excerpts from these journals—many taken from notes written around a camp fire, spattered with a slapped mosquito or a drop of coffee—show in direct context what he did in his own leisure time. The essays are taken from more contemplative notes which were still in manuscript when Leopold died, fighting a grass fire in 1948. Round River has been edited by Leopold's son, Luna, a geologist well-known in the field of conservation. It is also illustrated throughout with line drawings by Charles W. Schwartz. All admirers of Leopold's work—indeed, all lovers of nature—will find this book richly rewarding.

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 rare and previously unpublished essays by Leopold, builds on that vision of ethical land use and develops the concept of "land health" and the practical measures landowners can take to sustain it. The writings are vintage Leopold -- clear, sensible, and provocative, sometimes humorous, often lyrical, and always inspiring. Joining them together are a wisdom and a passion that transcend the time and place of the author's life.The book offers a series of forty short pieces, arranged in seasonal "almanac" form, along with longer essays, arranged chronologically, which show the development of Leopold's approach to managing private lands for conservation ends. The final essay is a never before published work, left in pencil draft at his death, which proposes the concept of land health as an organizing principle for conservation. Also featured is an introduction by noted Leopold scholars J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle that provides a brief biography of Leopold and places the essays in the context of his life and work, and an afterword by conservation biologist Stanley A. Temple that comments on Leopold's ideas from the perspective of modern wildlife management.The book's conservation message and practical ideas are as relevant today as they were when first written over fifty years ago. For the Health of the Land represents a stunning new addition to the literary legacy of Aldo Leopold.

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With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac is doubtless Leopold’s most popular book, Game Management may well be his most important. In this book he revolutionized the field of conservation.

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Leopold's writing on the sandhill cranes and the excerpts from his journals make you immediately want to go to Wisconsin. he text is excerpted from the Sand County Almanac. Meine's essay on Leopold is very interesting. You can read more about the volume here,

Während in Europa der Zweite Weltkrieg tobt, schreibt der US-amerikanische Forstwissenschaftler und Umweltethiker Aldo Leopold über die Wälder von Arizona, Oregon und Manitoba, wo er Flora und Fauna erkundet hat, und den Einfluss menschlichen Handelns auf die Natur. Er erinnert sich an die magischen Tänze der Waldschnepfen, sinniert über die Trunkenheit des Windes, wundert sich über die Sprache der Bäume und über ihr Gedächtnis, beschreibt Gemälde, die der Wisconsin River an manchen Sommermorgen malt, und Felsenblümchen, die kleinsten Blumen der Welt. Selten wurde so sinnlich über die Natur geschrieben, wurde in so knappen, eindringliehen Worten so viel über die wichtigen Dinge des Lebens gesagt. 1949, ein Jahr nach Leopolds Tod und ein Jahrhundert nach Thoreaus Walden erschienen, ist A Sand County Almanac, aus dem dieser Band eine Auswahl bietet, längst nicht nur ein Klassiker des nature writing und ein Grundlagentext der Umweltschutzbewegung, sondern vor allem, so Literaturnobelpreisträger Jean-Maria Gustave Le Clézio, ein Brevier für alle, die nach einem ausgeglichenen Leben streben.

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Aldo Leopold’s work as a forester, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin and author helped to establish the modern land conservation movement. This short essay from 1947, evidently lecture notes, provides useful insight into Leopold’s teaching methods, a snapshot of how he framed humankind’s relationship to land for his students.This book was handset in Monotype Dante and printed in a limited edition of 160 copies on a Vandercook proof press. The text paper was handmade in the 1980s by the Imago paper mill in California. Sixteen pages handsewn into a paper wrapper printed in a pattern of ornaments.

Le prophète de l’écologie était d’abord un forestier. L’Almanach d’un comté des sables s’appuie sur 20 ans de travail de terrain. Dans ce recueil d’articles, on découvre l’élaboration progressive de sa conception de la protection de la nature.Dans le contexte contemporain d’innovation et de réflexion sur la libre évolution, Leopold nous ramène aux fondamentaux de la protection de la nature. Textes sélectionnés par Daniel Vallauri et Jean-Claude Génot

Je ne me fais pas dillusions sur la rapidit avec laquelle une conscience cologique peut porter ses fruits. Il a fallu dix-neuf sicles pour dfinir un code thique mme de rgir la conduite des hommes entre eux, et rien nest encore parfait. Llaboration dun code de conduite portant sur les relations entre lhomme et la terre pourrait bien prendre autant de temps.

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Aldo Leopold n'est pas inconnu en France, où Aubier avait publié déjà en 1995 son Almanach d'un comté des sables. Ce recueil était constitué en grande partie du texte éponyme, qu'accompagnaient plusieurs essais. L'Almanach est un texte posthume : Leopold venait tout juste d'en apprendre la publication future lorsqu'il mourut d'une crise cardiaque le 21 avril 1948. Il avait 61 ans et laissait, outre ce dernier manuscrit, une œuvre considérable comprenant plus de mille textes publiés et inédits, articles, essais, recherches, études… Pour l'essentiel conservés à l'Université du Wisconsin, les écrits de Leopold témoignent aussi de sa contribution essentielle à la structuration de l'écologie comme science et pratique. Les textes rassemblés dans ce volume conservent tous un écho aujourd'hui : la déforestation des campagnes (et la destruction des haies, maladie décidément contagieuse) ; l'érosion des terres pauvres ; la destruction des marais ; l'expansion incontrôlée des villes à des fins purement économiques (Leopold a sur le dieu Automobiliste des considérations on ne peut plus lucides) ; la disparition des zones inexplorées ; l'importance des fermiers comme gardiens et conservateurs de la terre ; la surexploitation des forêts ; la bonne gestion du gibier ; la destruction parfois ignare des mauvaises herbes (ou de ce que l'on considère à tort comme telles) et des espèces sauvages. Également au sommaire de notre Pour la santé de la terre, trois essais fondamentaux sur l'écologie de Leopold, « Quelques principes essentiels de la conservation dans le Sud-Ouest des États-Unis » (1923), « Éthique de la préservation de la nature » (1933) et « Considérations biotiques sur la terre » (1939) : il y aborde les grands équilibres écologiques et les chaînes alimentaires, à la compréhension desquels il a largement contribué. Pour la santé de la terre fait aussi découvrir un autre « Almanac », celui, dédié à la conservation de la nature, qu'ont reconstitué le philosophe J. Baird Callicott et l'environnementaliste Eric T. Freyfogle, à lire dans le droit fil de L'Almanach d'un comté des sables, avec lequel il partage quelques chroniques. Et l'inclassable « Les prophètes forestiers », où Leopold s'interroge avec la douce ironie qui est l'un de ses registres favoris sur les pratiques écologiques et sylvicoles des anciens Hébreux. Avec les 14 textes, largement inédits en français rassemblés dans Pour la santé de la terre, nous espérons contribuer à la redécouverte en France d'un immense penseur et acteur de l'écologie, dont les écrits à la langue magnifique ont encore valeur d'enseignement.

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Wild blue flameAldo Leopold, the father of environmental ethics, was introduced to Korean readers through "The Twelve Months of the Sand Army," a bible by modern environmentalists, but he is still a low figure to us. But Leopold is an important figure in US environmental movement history. As a Forest Service official, naturalist, professor, and writer, he tried to live our lives without harming the land. It also proposed a new ethical system for land. This book presents Aldo Leopolds tireless passion for life and his nature, with a wealth of photographic material, which has greatly influenced environmental movement and ideas today.