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The Land and Wildlife of North America (Life Nature Library)
The Land and Wildlife of North America - Life Nature Library Author:Peter Farb Each generation has a scientific elite that discovers new truths about the natural world. On our continent, the exciting work of discovering, collecting and classifying the flora and fauna was performed by the Bartrams and Audubons of yesteryear. The Bartrams of today - men like Aldo Leopold, Olaus Murie and Paul Sears, and women like Rachel Car... more »son - have been discoverers of a different order, trained in geology, biology or geography; but invariably they have derived deep insight from their grasp of the sensitive science of ecology, which teaches us, in John Muir's words, that "when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."« less