Mockingbird Song
caust where otherwise a more modest, perhaps cleansing and rejuvenating fire might have blazed. Fire was the one natural hazard ...
logical systems. Frederick Clements was the early giant who gave the world the terms ‘‘succession’’ and ‘‘climax.’’ The first de ...
ing ‘‘land ethic’’ of the Iowa-born game manager Aldo Leopold. If humans, ever a part of natural systems, behave knowledgeably a ...
houses weatherproofed with newspaper, tired mules drawing antique equipment over fields equally tired. Arguably the best-known, ...
Athens. His father and paternal grandfather had little formal education, and illiteracy seems not to have been uncommon among Od ...
largely dominated the field of southern history—Howard Odum was by far the most prominent. He founded the sociology department, ...
of evils, godless relativism.I’ll Take My Standhad its points both principled and elegiac, and it deserves to be in print even t ...
of wealth and the spiritual and social advantages of rural life. Agrarian- ism may also be merely a closely related sentiment. T ...
he conceded that ‘‘one must admit that much that is distinctive of southern culture, its plantation system, its sectionalism, it ...
land nor seek his fortune in that wicked Paris.’’ There being in America no more western frontier for surplus children to claim, ...
ties in Georgia. Yet his masterful applied interdisciplinarity illuminated what had gone terribly wrong in Greene and Macon coun ...
Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, on a Saturday afternoon, . Photo by Jack Delano. Courtesy Library of Congress (LC-USF- ...
erosion is not, however. By the s, market forces (pushed by chemical corporations and agronomists) had compelled virtually a ...
cades after his crawl-space studies, Gene Odum published his revolutionary textbook in ecosystem ecology,The Fundamentals of Eco ...
interactive systems at the top. Their model textbook wasPrinciples of Ani- mal Ecology(), by Warder Allee and others. Gene O ...
cipal founder of Georgia’s Institute for Ecology, where he trained genera- tions of graduate students from around the nation and ...
Eugene P. Odum greets a bronze bust of himself, Institute for Ecology, University of Georgia, September . Photo UGA Resea ...
edge[d] the shared effort toward this aim with my brother Eugene P. Odum, University of Georgia.’’^52 tBy the mid-s, with th ...
published a detailed and respectful history of the ecosystem concept with Yale University Press that appeared hardly a year afte ...
The commencement of warm weather gives activity to decomposition, and the soft air is redolent of its products: and in sundry di ...
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