... of the writer or scholar, then metonymy is life's biocentric figure. Emerson's rescaling of man to a grasshopper may not reach the extent of biocentric revisioning of the sort found in Aldo Leopold's "Odyssey" of atoms X and Y in Sand County Almanac (1970), a parable in his vision of biotic community. (39) But this shift to organic metonymy surely detranscendentalizes the implications of "organic metaphor ... " most thoroughly associated with Emersonian correspondence as theorized in Nature. Like Leopold, Emerson decenters the epic of human history by way of an ecological scale of atoms ...

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... . We as Earth's citizens need to become educated in order to tackle the issue at hand and assist in stabilizing and ultimately preventing a global climate crisis. The following passage by Aldo Leopold from A Sand County Almanac reflects the importance of education for the environment: "Does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work ... ...

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