Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental MovementUniversity of Georgia Press, 2004 - 373 pages Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls “conserving” words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how “conserving” words enabled narratives to convey environmental values as they explained how human beings should interact with the nonhuman world. |
Contents
The Ecology of Influence | 1 |
PRESERVING THE PIECES PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATION | 31 |
The Closing of the Frontier Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club | 33 |
The Garden You and I Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society | 72 |
Our National Parks John Muir and the Sierra Club | 106 |
PROTECTING THE PLANET MODERN ENVIRONMENTALISM | 157 |
The Call of the Wild Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society | 159 |
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