"1st Ballantine Books ed.: Sept. 1970."

January thaw -- Good oak -- The geese return -- Come high water -- Draba -- Bur oak -- Sky dance -- Back from the Argentine -- The alder fork -- Great possessions -- Prairie birthday -- The green pasture -- The choral copse -- Smoky gold -- Too early -- Red lanterns -- If I were the wind -- Axe-in-hand -- A mighty fortress -- Home range -- Pines above the snow -- 65290 -- The quality of landscape -- A taste for country -- The ethical sequence -- The community concept -- The ecological conscience -- Substitutes for a land ethic -- The land pyramid -- Land health and the A-B cleavage -- The outlook -- The remnants -- Wilderness for recreation -- Wilderness for science -- Wilderness for wildlife -- Defenders of wilderness -- Conservation esthetic. Presents a collection of nature writings by Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of the early twentieth century.