Daniel J. Philippon is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he is also director of the Program in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Ethics. He is editor of a critical edition of Mabel Osgood Wright's The Friendship of Nature and coeditor of the anthology The Height of Our Mountains.
Conserving Words richly evokes the larger social context of
American nature writing in the era between Roosevelt and Abbey.
Daniel Philippon's skill in interweaving the literature with the
friendships, letters, official reports, and public debates that
informed it makes this book both illuminating and delightful.--John
Elder "author of Reading the Mountains of Home"
Philippon does an extraordinarily thorough and lucid job of telling
the life stories of these five writers, focusing on their
involvement in the environmental movement. . . . In seeking to
discern the political and social impact of environmental writing,
Conserving Words makes an important contribution to one of the
central issues in contemporary ecocriticism.--Scott Slovic
"University of Nevada, Reno"
[An] excellent analysis for the eco-critic and
academic.--Southeastern Naturalist
A readable, lucid examination of how five Americans shaped the
environmental movement through their writing . . . Making a
significant contribution to the relatively new field of
environmental humanities, this book--though classed as natural
history--contains so much biography and anecdote that it will
appeal to readers across many disciplines.--Choice
A valuable overview of the development of Progressive-era
conservation and modern-day environmentalism . . . Conserving Words
is an extremely valuable book for its case studies and for its
thought-provoking Introduction and Conclusion.--Science
Gets beyond the surface appeals of nature writing which is
ordinarily lumped together by most readers.--University Press Book
Review
Philippon shows in meticulous fashion how his five writer-activists
played integral, complex roles in the development of these
important organizations, and how often these people and their
organizations interacted.--ISLE
Writers who write about a need to protect the environment and
readers who revere them should have high praise for Philippon's
Conserving Words.--Salt Lake City Tribune
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