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A sense of soil: Agricultural conservation and American culture

A sense of soil: Agricultural conservation and American culture A Sense of Soil: Agricultural Conservation and American Culture Donald Worster ] ] Donald Worster is Jack E. Meyerhoff Professor of Ameri- can Environmental Studies and chairman of the graduate program in American History at Brandeis University. His books include Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (winner of the Bancroft prize in history); Nature's Econ- omy: A History of Ecological Ideas; and Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity,, and the Growth of the American West. A version of this essay has been published in The Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy. "The soil, too--let others pen-and-ink the what cultural forces produced the 1935 commit- sea, the air, ment and to speculate about what our attitude, (as I sometimes try)--but now I feel to our commitment, is today. What have we as a choose the common people done with our soil since the act was soil for theme--naught else:' passed? What have we learned about preserving Walt Whitman, Specimen Days (1882) the soil and what have we forgotten? The South, soil-plagued and soil-conscious be- yond other regions, played an extraordinary role Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of a landmark event in American agricultural and in preparing the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

A sense of soil: Agricultural conservation and American culture

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 2 (4) – Apr 5, 2005

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Springer Journals
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Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
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1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/BF01530675
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A Sense of Soil: Agricultural Conservation and American Culture Donald Worster ] ] Donald Worster is Jack E. Meyerhoff Professor of Ameri- can Environmental Studies and chairman of the graduate program in American History at Brandeis University. His books include Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (winner of the Bancroft prize in history); Nature's Econ- omy: A History of Ecological Ideas; and Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity,, and the Growth of the American West. A version of this essay has been published in The Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy. "The soil, too--let others pen-and-ink the what cultural forces produced the 1935 commit- sea, the air, ment and to speculate about what our attitude, (as I sometimes try)--but now I feel to our commitment, is today. What have we as a choose the common people done with our soil since the act was soil for theme--naught else:' passed? What have we learned about preserving Walt Whitman, Specimen Days (1882) the soil and what have we forgotten? The South, soil-plagued and soil-conscious be- yond other regions, played an extraordinary role Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of a landmark event in American agricultural and in preparing the

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Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Journals

Published: Apr 5, 2005

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