Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from an American Golden Age, 1880–1920
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Table of Contents

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

America’s Love of the Land: An Introduction

1

Editor’s Notes

17

Forerunners: Readings 1770–1880

Introducing the Forerunners

19

“Letter II, On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer”

21

Jean de Crevecoeur

“Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX”

31

Thomas Jefferson

“How Democratic Institutions and Manners Tend to Raise Rents …”

34

Alexis de Tocqueville

“Nature”

38

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Address Delivered Before the Agricultural Society of Rutland County, 1847”

41

George Perkins Marsh