BIBLIOGRAPHY
The idea of conservation, related as it is to the man-nature
theme, can
be traced through Clarence Glacken, Traces on
the
Rhodian Shore (Berkeley, 1967). Glacken follows the
theme of
nature and culture in Western thought from an-
cient times up through the eighteenth century, and presents
a comprehensive bibliography. William L. Thomas, ed.,
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
(Chicago,
1956), is the transactions of a conference sponsored by
the
Wenner-Gren Foundation, and pursues many of the con-
cepts basic to the idea of conservation.
For the development
of the conservation idea in America, Stewart L.
Udall, The
Quiet Crisis (New York, 1963), is
particularly useful. It can
be supplemented by Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Gound
(New York, 1947), and by
Roderick Nash, The American
Environment: Readings in
the History of Conservation
(Reading, Mass., 1968). A history
of ideas on wildlife con-
servation is
presented by Aldo Leopold, Game Management
(New
York, 1933), and Edward H. Graham, The Land and
Wildlife (New York, 1947). The urban environment and the
conservation problems related to it can be examined in
Lewis Mumford,
The City in History (New York, 1961).
The first books relating the world population problem
to the problems of
conservation are those of William Vogt,
Road to Survival (New York, 1948), and Fairfield Osborn,
Our Plundered Planet (Boston, 1948), covering the
period
of population crisis following the end of the Second World
War. The modern scope of conservation is presented in
Raymond F.
Dasmann, Environmental Conservation (New
York,
1968), and in Udall's book mentioned above.
Other references included in the discussion are: Shirley
Allen, Conserving Natural Resources (New York, 1959).
William Bartram, The Travels of William Bartram...
(1791;
various reprints). Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon,
Natural History, General and Particular (1749ff.;
London,
1812). Frederick Clements, Plant
Succession (Pittsburgh,
1916). M. J., Marquis de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical
Picture of the Conquest of
the Human Mind (1795; New
York, 1955). Charles Elton, Animal Ecology (London, 1927);
idem, The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
(London and New York, 1958). John Evelyn, Silva: or,
A
Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in
His Majesty's Dominion (1664; later reprints). William
Godwin,
Of Population (London, 1820). Alexander von
Humboldt, Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description
of
the Universe (1845-62; many editions). Joseph Illick, An
Outline of General Forestry (New York, 1939). Aldo Leopold,
A Sand County Almanac (New York, 1949). Arthur
O.
Lovejoy,
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the
History
of an Idea (Cambridge, Mass., 1936). Thomas Malthus,
An
Essay on Population... (1798; various
reprints). George
P. Marsh,
Man and Nature, or
Physical Geography as Modi-
fied by
Human Action (1864; Cambridge, Mass., 1965). John
Muir,
The Mountains of California (New York, 1894); idem,
Our National Parks (Boston, 1901). T. S. Palmer,
“Chronol-
ogy and Index of
American Game Protection, 1776-1911,”
U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Biological Survey, Bulletin
41 (1912). John Wesley Powell,
Report on the Lands of the
Arid Region of the
United States (Washington, D.C., 1878).
Carl O. Sauer,
Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (Ameri-
can Geographical Society, 1952).
Guy-Harold Smith, ed.,
Conservation of Natural Resources (New York, 1950).
Henry
David Thoreau,
Excursions, the Writings of
Henry David
Thoreau (1863; reprint Boston, 1893).
RAYMOND F. DASMANN
[See also Environment;
Environment and Culture;
Evolu-
tionism; Nature;
Perfectibility.]
