The wealth of nature environmental history and the ecological imagination
Donald Worster.
- New York Oxford University Press 1993.
- x, 255 p. 24 cm.
Book of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or given as lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-243) and index.
The nature we have lost -- Paths across the levee -- History as natural history -- Transformation of the earth -- Arranging a marriage: ecology and agriculture -- A sense of soil -- Good farming and the public good -- Private, public, personal: Americans and the land -- The kingdom, the power, and the water -- Thinking like a river -- An end to ecstasy -- The shaky ground of sustainable development -- The ecology of order and chaos -- Restoring a natural order -- John Muir and the roots of American environmentalism -- The wealth of nature.
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