Conserving Words(English, Paperback, Philippon Daniel J.)

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Conserving Words(English, Paperback, Philippon Daniel J.) is written by Philippon Daniel J. and published by University of Georgia Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 082032759X (ISBN 10) and 9780820327594 (ISBN 13).

Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls "conserving" words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how "conserving" words enabled narratives to convey environmental values as they explained how human beings should interact with the nonhuman world.