This Bright Land: A Personal View
Atkinson, Brooks / Gierhart, Dale Steve![This Bright Land: A Personal View](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/343/34315384/CHSBZCOP0334315384.jpg)
In 1971, when Brooks Atkinson wrote This Bright Land, the modern conservation movement was being driven by new awareness of science's shortcomings. The early conservation movement, built on John Muir and Henry David Thoreau's appreciation of nature, was well aware of man's ability to outstrip his environment, but until the 1960s society still trusted man's ingenuity to fix any problem, even as mankind willfully depleted his natural resources.H...