When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a handful of efforts to capture the work and thought of America's most significant environmental thinker, Aldo Leopold. This new edition of Susan Flader's masterful account of Leopold's philosophical journey, including a new preface reviewing recent Leopold scholarship, makes
- Title : Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests
- Author : Susan L. Flader
- Rating : 4.57 (258 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-6-22
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 320 Pages
- Asin : 0299145042
- Language : English
When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a handful of efforts to capture the work and thought of America's most significant environmental thinker, Aldo Leopold. This new edition of Susan Flader's masterful account of Leopold's philosophical journey, including a new preface reviewing recent Leopold scholarship, makes this classic case study available again and brings much-deserved attention to the continuing influence and importance of Leopold today. Thinking Like a Mountain unfolds with Flader's close analysis of Leopold's essay of the same title, which explores issues of predation by studying the interrelationships between deer, wolves, and forests. Flader shows how his approach to wildlife management and species preservation evolved from his experiences restoring the deer population in the Southwestern United States, his study of the German system of forest and wildlife management, and his efforts to combat the overpopulation of deer in Wisconsin. His own intellectual development parallels the formation of the conservation movement, reflecting his struggle to understand the relationship between the land and its human and It does for ecology what Arthur Koestler did for cosmology in his "The Sleepwalkers" (1959). This book is not the Aldo Leopold essay "Thinking like a Mountain", but a history of his life and work. After several false starts, I managed to read this amazingly funny and incredibly difficult work several years ago. The other essay collections are good also, as I have read most of them. There are lessons in Leopold's life and work for modern policy-makers fighting to change public perceptions on issues such as global warming and climate change.. I would not spend my money again on this book though.. This task grew increasingly difficult as his thinking advanced from simple "game increase" efforts in the Southwest to deer herd reduction, re-establishment of wolves and other predators, and the integration of Wisconsin wildlife and timber management into his emerging idea of a broader dynamic ecosystem. It turns out to have been a journey of study, disciplined observation, deep reflection, trial, error and self-correction.Flader's careful account, drawing on much unpublished Leopold material, lays particular stress on Leopold's struggles to bring policy-makers and the public along with him. To know Leopold only through "A Sand County Almanac" is to miss what Flader terms his "intellectual odyssey" from clas"Thinking Like a Mountain is the central account of the intellectual odyssey that brought Leopold from his youth as an enthusiastic exterminator of predators to his largely posthumous role as the foremost American exponent of the ecological view of things."—Library Journal
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