Talk:A Sand County Almanac

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Work

This page needs some serious work. The massive block of text needs to be edit down and rework to make it more smooth reading. -ChristopherM 05:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

The page still needs work. I've expanded the summary of the book, but it's scandalous that a work of this importance has not attracted more contributors from the massive scholarly community who emphasize Leopold's work. Among things that would be a nice would be some discussion of the controversy over the philosophical pedigree and interpretation of Leopold's land ethic, as well as, perhaps, the debate among environmental ethicists about Leopold's credentials as an original philosophical voice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomp649 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

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Copied

That text was copied directly from http://www.treelink.org/woodnotes/vol2/no1/sandcnty.htm by 140.209.61.217 so I removed it. -ChristopherM 00:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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Notability

It isn't hard to find articles that say the book is notable:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/13/opinion/a-sand-county-almanac-at-50.html NY Times article from 1999 titled A Sand County Almanac at 50 If A Sand County Almanac were not notable, the NY Times wouldn't be writing about it 50 years after it was published.
http://www.pcdf.org/Meadows/leopold.html "The book was little noticed until twenty years later, during the environmental awakening of the 1970s, when a paperback edition turned into a surprise best-seller."
"Rachel Carson" By Lisa H. Sideris, Kathleen Dean Moore Page 96 The authors point out that "A Sand County Almanac" was an important influence on Rachel Carson. They also point out that the book attracted "overwhelming attention from environmental philosophers as a source of information and ideas".
"Silent Spring" and "A Sand County Almanac": The Two Most Significant Environmental Books of the 20th Century Nature Study, v44 n2-3 p6-8 Feb 1991 "The histories, similarities, and differences between these two books are discussed. Reasons for their importance to the environmental movement are proposed. Lists of additional references are included." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.13.170 (talk) 01:42, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

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terribly hard to follow, with excerpts taken straight from other sites (http://www.treelink.org/woodnotes/vol2/no1/sandcnty.htm) without citation.

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