Fire on the Mountain: Ecology Gets its Narrative Totem

Aldo Leopold’s essay ‘Thinking Like a Mountain’ was more than a parable about a redemptive personal moment; it was the fruition of a larger effort on Leopold’s part to effectively communicate the fundamentals of a ‘land ethic’. I explore striking narrative antecedents to Leopold’s ‘green ?re’ moment...

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Main Author: Van Horn, Gavin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2011
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2011, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 437-464
Further subjects:B Wolves
B Ernest Thompson Seton
B ecological worldview
B narrative myth
B Henry David Thoreau
B biosphere
B green fire
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