Nature's Economy

A History of Ecological Ideas

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Paperback | 14 November 1994 | Edition Number 2

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Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. Our view of the living world is a product of culture, and the development of ecology since the eighteenth century has closely reflected society's changing concerns. Donald Worster focuses on these dramatic shifts in outlook and on the individuals whose work has expressed and influenced society's point of view. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum.

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'A major purpose of this book, written at a time when ecology burgeons as both a science and a cult, is to show that ecological science has always been shifting ground ... Worster's style is warm, intellectually strong, and eloquent.' Frederick E. Smith, Science 'The in-depth treatment Worster has given to many who contributed to the evolution and revolution of the discipline reflects scholarship of high order. To write in a highly readable and absorbing style makes it even more praiseworthy. Graduates in ecology at baccalaureate to doctoral levels, and many practitioners of the discipline, basic and applied, would do well to take stock of where they came from. Worster is a very worthwhile guide.' Edward J. Kormondy, Ecology 'Donald Worster's book, a gracefully written account of select events in the history of ecology, is designed to show how this field developed prior to the mid-twentieth century explosion of concern about the subject ... Worster has written a volume that should be read and pondered.' Keir B. Sterling, American Historical Review 'Worster has produced a fascinating book. One reading left a copy littered with checkmarks, underlined passages, exclamation, and a note paper of quotations and ideas. The book is well written, well organized, interesting, and provocative.' Frank B. Golley, Human Ecology

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Preface
Two Road Diverged: Ecology in the Eighteenth Century
Science in Arcadia
The empire of reason
The Subversive Science: Thoreau's Romantic Ecology
A naturalist in concord
Nature looking into nature
Roots and branches
The Dismal Science: Darwinian Ecology
A fallen world
The education
Scrambling for place
The ascent of man
O Pioneers: Ecology on the Frontier
Words on a map
Clements and the climax community
Dust follows the plow
The Morals of a Science: Ethics, Economics, and Ecology
The value of a varmint
Producers and consumers
Declarations of interdependence
The Age of Ecology: Science and the Fate of the Earth
Healing the planet
Disturbing nature
Notes
Glossary of terms
Selected Bibliography
Index
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