Written as a series of sketches based principally upon the flora and fauna in a rural part of Wisconsin, the book, originally published by Oxford in 1949, gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled ...

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This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before.

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