TY - BOOK ID - 77871523 TI - Circling back : chronicle of a Texas river valley PY - 1996 SN - 1587292408 9781587292408 0877455309 0877455317 9780877455301 9780877455318 PB - Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, DB - UniCat KW - Natural history KW - Ecologists KW - History, Natural KW - Natural science KW - Physiophilosophy KW - Biology KW - Science KW - Biologists KW - Conservationists KW - Naturalists KW - Scientists KW - Biography. KW - Truett, Joe C. KW - Childhood and youth. KW - Angelina River Valley (Tex.) KW - Angelina Valley (Tex.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871523 AB - "There was so much space." These words epitomize ecologist Joe Truett's boyhood memories of the Angelina River valley in East Texas. Years and miles later, back home for the funeral of his grandfather, Truett began a long meditation on the world Corbett Graham had known and he himself had glimpsed, a now-vanished world where wild hogs and countless other animals rustled through the leaves, cows ate pinewoods grass instead of corn, oaks and hickories and longleaf pines were untouched by the corporate ax, and the river flowed freely. Truett's meditation resulted in this clear-sighted po ER -