The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and Commentaries

by Curt D. Meine (Editor), Richard L. Knight (Editor)

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, conservationists, historians, and philosophers provide introductory commentaries describing Leopold’s contributions in varied fields and reflecting upon the significance of his work today.


J. Baird Callicott
David Ehrenfeld
Susan L. Flader
Eric T. Freyfogle
Wes Jackson
Paul W. Johnson
Joni L. Kinsey
Richard L. Knight
Gary K. Meffe
Curt Meine
Gary Paul Nabhan
Richard Nelson
Bryan G. Norton
David W. Orr
Edwin P. Pister
Donald Snow
Stanley A. Temple
Jack Ward Thomas
Charles Wilkinson
Terry Tempest Williams
Donald Worster
Joy B. Zedler

Genres: Nature

362 pages, Paperback

First published December 16, 1999

About the author

Curt Meine, Ph.D., is a conservation biologist, historian, and writer. During his conservation career over the last twenty years, Meine has worked on projects involving topics ranging from biodiversity conservation planning, sustainable agriculture, and international development, to crane and wetland conservation, prairie restoration, and development of community-based conservation programs. He has worked in Europe, Asia, and across North America, in partnership with organizations including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Conservation Union, the World Wildlife Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Society of Conservation Biology and on the editorial boards of the journals Conservation Biology and Environmental Ethics.

Meine has edited and authored several books. His biography Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1988, was the first full-length biography of Leopold (taken & abridged from www.humansandnature.org)

Reviews

[Finrod · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sure must for all serious fans or scholars of Aldo Leopold, however it's not at all the ideal choice if you're just looking for a book on the ideas or the life of the great ecologist after having been fascinated by “A Sand County Almanac”, as the inherent disconnected nature of a quotations book and the interesting but short essays introducing each chapter make a bit difficult for non experts to make up a complete, consistent view of Leopold's philosophy. Sure a great scholarly work, but not everybody's cup of tea

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bit dry, took me a while to get through this book. Leopold was a great thinker and ahead of his time on his philosophy of ecology. He lived his beliefs. I think he was a writer as much as a scientist. I must try to get to the shack this summer. I have been to the Foundation in Baraboo but it was too cold to walk the grounds out to the shack.

[Mills College Library]

333.72 E785 1999