| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and Commentaries. Edited by Curt Meine and Richard L. Knight. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xxii + 362 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $27.95.)

^"Aldo Leopold's is a living legacy," pronounce Curt Meine and Richard L. Knight (p. xviii). Leopold's ideas still instruct foresters, wildlife biologists, and other conservationists. His words still educate and inspire. Perhaps most importantly, his lessons still need to be learned. This collection of quotations makes Leopold's legacy accessible to lay readers, academics, and conservation professionals. 1

Meine and Knight have sifted through Leopold's articles and essays and selected his most meaningful and poetic statements. The quotations are from both well-known sources such as the essay "Thinking Like a Mountain" and obscure book reviews, obituaries, and unpublished manuscripts. The editors have arranged the quotations into 21 thematic chapters, divided into three sections. The first section, "Conservation Science and Practice," presents Leopold's ideas on professional topics such as forest ecology and soil conservation. Section two, "Conservation Policy," shows how Leopold tried to translate conservation issues into concrete policies for land management. The last and most provocative section, "Conservation and Culture," illustrates Leopold's recognition "that land yields a cultural harvest" (p. 221). It presents Leopold's thoughts on the intersections of nature and culture: hunting, environmental history, and the land ethic. . . .

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