Mockingbird Song

. Ibid. .
. Hammond traveled much as soil surveyor, and his personal correspondence,
especially to his wife, contained frequent references to wildflowers and other beau-
ties to be discovered across the continent. See the Hugh Hammond Bennett Papers,
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. On Roman-
tic and other attachments to beauty in nature among instrumentalist conservation-
ists, see Robert L. Dorman,A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates,
–(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ), esp. –, on George
Perkins Marsh’s mind and sensibilities.
. On natural disasters (many of them southern), see Ted Steinberg,Acts of God:
The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America(New York: Oxford University Press,
), – (on the Charleston earthquake); Stephen J. Pyne,Fire in America: A Cultural
History of Wildland and Rural Fire(Princeton: Princeton University Press, ); and
Donald Worster,Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the s(New York: Oxford Univer-
sity Press, ).
. See Donald Worster,Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, ), esp. . In this paragraph and below I rely also on
Worster, but especially on Frank B. Golley,A History of the Ecosystem Concept of Ecology:
More Than the Sum of the Parts(New Haven: Yale University Press, ), and Golley,A
Primer for Environmental Literacy(New Haven: Yale University Press, ).
. Tansley quoted in Worster,Nature’s Economy, .
. Among many others, I have written about southern poverty and migration in
Rural Worlds Lost, and about documentary photography inMedia-Made Dixie: The South
in the American Imagination(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, ). All
students of the documentary are indebted to William Stott,Documentary Photogra-
phy and Thirties America(New York: Oxford University Press, ). On Georgia’s Little
Grand Canyon, see Paul Sutter, ‘‘Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon,’’ inThe Environment
and Southern History, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson ( Jackson: University Press of Missis-
sippi, forthcoming).
. On Howard Washington Odum’s life and intellectual development, see Rupert
Vance and Katharine Jocher, ‘‘Howard W. Odum,’’Social Forces, no.  (): –,
and Wayne Douglas Brazil,Howard W. Odum: The Building Years, –(New York:
Garland, ). Eugene P. Odum’s biographer, Betty Jean Craige, employing these and
other sources, including interviews with Howard W.’s three children, argues convinc-
ingly that the holism of Howard W. profoundly influenced his sons’ concept of ecosys-
tem ecology; see CraigeEugene Odum,–.
. On the Agrarian vs. Regionalist contretemps of the s, see (among many
relevant works) Paul Conkin,The Southern Agrarians(Knoxville: University of Tennes-
see Press, ), and Daniel Joseph Singal,The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist
Thought in the South, –(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ).
. See Boyd,Wrapped in Rainbows,,–.
. On Odum’s and the Regionalists’ agrarianism, see Michael O’Brien,The Idea of
    –