TY - BOOK AU - Worster,Donald TI - The wealth of nature: environmental history and the ecological imagination SN - 0195076249 AV - GF503 .W68 1993 U1 - 304.2/8/0973 20 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Human ecology KW - United States KW - History KW - Local KW - Landscape assessment KW - Environment KW - Effects of KW - Humans N1 - 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 ER -