The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and Commentaries

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

Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for all Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced American empire, championed environmental causes, opposed war, and waged peace. It chronicles voices of the women s rights movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and the gay rights movement. And on every page, it declares the importance of an independent media, by culling the best of The Progressive magazine over the last one hundred years.
Readers will discover the vision of the magazine s founder, Robert Fighting Bob La Follette, and his suffragist wife, Belle Case La Follette. They ll find historic gems from the likes of Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, Huey Long, and John Kenneth Galbraith, and profound essays by Theodore Dreiser, Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Upton Sinclair, Arundhati Roy, James Baldwin, Edwidge Danticat, and Edward Said. The collection is leavened with humor from Kate Clinton, Will Durst, Michael Feldman, and Molly Ivins, and graced by poems from such writers as Mahmoud Darwish, Rita Dove, Martin Espada, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, and Sandra Cisneros. Fascinating interviews bring readers into conversations with prominent cultural figures, including Chuck D, the Dalai Lama, Allen Ginsberg, Amy Goodman, Harold Pinter, Patti Smith, Susan Sarandon, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Eminently browsable, this book is for anyone concerned with American democracy, the global community, and the perils of the planet. With contributions by actors and Supreme Court justices, comedians and Nobel Prize-winners, Democracy in Print offers all readers nourishing food for thought.
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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