Co-Workers with Nature Cooper, Thoreau, and Marsh

• Published in: American Georgics p. 153
• Main Author: TIMOTHY SWEET
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Agriculture; Animals; Anthropology; Behavioral sciences; Big game hunting; Biological sciences; Biology; Birds; Botany; Deer hunting; Dendrology; Earth sciences; Ecological economics; Ecological sustainability; Environmental economics; Environmental sciences; Environmental studies; Geography; Green economics; Human behavior; Humanity; Humans; Hunting; Land; Mammals; Marshes; Nature; Philosophical anthropology; Physical sciences; Pigeons; Primates; Rangelands; Sustainable agriculture; Trees; Wetlands; Zoology

For Americans unfamiliar with the Cherokee georgic, Removal could be written off as yet one more instance of the inevitable disappearance of a primitive mode of life. Robert Beverley had much earlier described a loss of “Native Pleasures” resulting from colonization and had proposed a calculus of co...