The Life and Works of Aldo Leopold, NaturalistAldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy. Thomas TannerAldo Leopold: The Professor. Robert A. McCabeCompanion to a Sand County Almanac. Interpretive & Critical Essays. J. Baird CallicottAldo Leopold: His Life and Works. Curt MeineThe Rights of Nature. A History of Environmental Ethics. Roderick Frazier Nash

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173
Author(s):  
Joel W. Hedgpeth
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Rights Of Nature ◽  
History Of

The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics

1990 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1240
Author(s):  
Philip V. Scarpino ◽  
Roderick Frazier Nash
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Rights Of Nature ◽  
History Of

The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics.

1990 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 896
Author(s):  
Douglas H. Strong ◽  
Roderick Frazier Nash
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Rights Of Nature ◽  
History Of

Aldo Leopold and the Search for an Integrated Theory of Environmental Management

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan G. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
General Terms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hetch Hetchy ◽  
Gifford Pinchot ◽  
Final Acceptance

Aldo Leopold led two lives. He was, in the best tradition of Gifford Pinchot, a forester and a coldly analytic scientific resource manager, devoted to maximizing resource productivity. But Leopold was also a romantic, who joined the Forest Service because of his love for the outdoors, a love he never lost or fully subjugated to the economic “ciphers” that so constrain public conservation work. During the last decade of his life, Leopold the romantic fashioned a little book of essays. He chose from the best of his stacks of field journals and his voluminous publications a few short essays, supplemented these with new pieces, polished them, and strung and restrung them like pearls. The manuscript, representing the essence of his long career, was given final acceptance by Oxford University Press only seven days before Leopold’s death, and the essays were published as A Sand County Almanac. The final essay in that book is “The Land Ethic,” which, Leopold said, “sets forth, in more logical terms, some ideas whereby we dissenters rationalize our dissent.” Although he was not primarily an abstract thinker, Leopold, I will assert, has been the most important figure in the history of both environmental management and environmental ethics. This evaluation is based on one reason: Having faced the environmentalists’ dilemma and, having to formulate goals and actions, he articulated a workable, practical philosophy that transcends the dilemma. The story of how he did so is a sketch of his life. Leopold was a forester in the Southwest for fifteen years. He saw the range deteriorate. He saw the main street of Carson City erode into a deep chasm, and he knew, by the early 1920s, that his agency and its Pinchotist philosophy was significantly responsible. But he was as befuddled as anyone else, and grasped at philosophical straws, or any other straws, to articulate in general terms what was going wrong. Leopold had entered the Forest Service at the height of the Hetch Hetchy controversy. He recognized, of course, that there were critics of the service, and he surely had some respect for Muir’s viewpoint.

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