Selected Writings

Transformation Is Ongoing

IN ALDO LEOPOLD’S ODYSSEY, her new study of Leopold's intellectual evolution, Julianne…[Warren] makes us feel the loss of what might have followed "A Sand County Almanac" by showing us in authoritative detail what led up to it. The result is a biography of ideas, a map of how far Leopold had moved between 1909, when he began his Forest Service career in Arizona, and his death in rural Wisconsin 39 years later.-Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times Book Review, 2006

IN ALDO LEOPOLD’S ODYSSEY I perpetuated my cultural ancestors’ imaginaries of vague, cloudy ghosts, disappearing memories, “nameless men by nameless rivers,” better or worse “human stocks,” conversions of “the [old] Indian” to (a hopefully forthcoming “new kind of”) “farmer.” The imaginaries were part of, and perpetuated by, the master historical story incorporating manifest destiny, white supremacy, genocide, and eugenics.-Julianne Warren, “Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey, 2025