- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
Leopold’s Wildness
Leopold’s Wildness
Can Humans and Wolves Be at Home in the Adirondacks?
- Chapter:
- (p.95) 13 Leopold’s Wildness
- Source:
- Frog Pond Philosophy
- Author(s):
Strachan Donnelley
, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
The premise of this chapter is that Aldo Leopold’s notion of a land ethic cannot be understood apart from his broader worldview of the relationship between humans and nature. The question of the reintroduction of wolves into the Adirondack region provides a practical context for an appreciation of Leopold’s perspective. This is a long-term, holistic, evolutionary, and dynamic perspective, in which the role of large predator species is integral. The perspective also includes the essential element of the wild, or wildness. This enlarged view of a question such as the reintroduction of wolves into a region is transformative and puts short-term human interests and fears in their place.
Keywords: Aldo Leopold, land ethic, interdependence between humans and nature, wolves, wolf reintroduction, wild, wildness, human interests
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Prelude -
2 Prelude -
3 Frog Pond Philosophy -
4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter -
5 Kansas on My Mind -
6 Scientists’ Public Responsibilities -
7 Bottom Lines and the Earth’s Future -
8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature -
9 Nature’s Wildness -
10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers -
11 Big Little Snake -
12 Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom -
13 Leopold’s Wildness -
14 Leopold’s Darwin -
15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us -
16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead -
17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies -
18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility -
19 The Philosopher’s Poet -
20 Francis of Mepkin - Editors’ Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
