Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold · 1949
The founding text of land ethics and environmental philosophy in the United States. "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." Essays as ecological argument.
The case against
Readers come for the land ethic and find it occupies the last forty pages; first you must pass a full calendar year of Wisconsin nature vignettes, charming and slight. Leopold died before final assembly, and the seams show: almanac, travel sketches, philosophy, stitched loosely together. The argument that made it famous is an essay wearing a book.
Essays · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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