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A Finding Aid to the Paul Brooks Collection

Articles and Speeches

  • “Acquiring and Protecting Land” in Garden Journal (November/December 1968, pp. 71-80; reprinted in Challenge for Survival: Land, Air, and Water For Man in Megalopolis edited by Pierre Dansereau (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970))

  • “Alaska: Last Frontier” in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1962, 73-78)  

  • "The Art of Seeing Nature" in Lincoln by Lincoln : Reflections on a Massachusetts Town at 250, compiled by Mary Ann Hales (Lincoln Center: The Cottage Press, 2004)

  • "Audubon's America" [speech, 14 May 1993]

  • “Baja California: Emergency and Opportunity” in Audubon (March 1972, pp. 4-23)

  • “Beachcombing in the Virgin Islands” in Harper’s Magazine (December 1960, pp. 52-57)

  • “Between the Tides” in Massachusetts Audubon (January/February 1960, pp. 105-110)

  • “Birds and Men” in Audubon (July 1980, pp. 43-45)

  • “Birds and Women” in Audubon (September 1980, pp. 88-97)  

  • "Books Follow the Jeep" in Publisher's Weekly (8 December 1945, pp. 2526-2530)

  • "Business Men on the Beach" [unpublished]

  • "Can We Over Develop Our Parks?" in Maryland Conservationist (January/February 1962, pp. 4-9)

  • “Canyonlands: A New National Park” in The Atlantic Monthly (March 1963, pp. 52-57)  

  • "A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Times of Louis Agassiz Fuertes by Robert McCracken Peck" [book review] in Sierra (March 1983)

  • “Champlain: Battleground Still” in Audubon (January 1977, pp. 66-77)

  • “Coming to Lincoln in the ‘Thirties’” in The Lincoln Review (November/December 1997, pp. 5-9)  

  • "Concord Bookshop 50th Anniversary Speech" [unpublished (1990)]

  • “Concord: First Town in the Wilderness” in The Living Wilderness (April/June 1976, pp. 4-9)

  • “Congressman Aspinall vs. the People of the United States” in Harper’s Magazine (March 1963, pp. 60-63)

  • “Conservation and the Conventional Wisdom” / “Wilderness in Western Culture” in Sierra Club Bulletin (December 1965,  pp. 6-9)  

  • "A Conservation Case History" in Concord Journal "Lincoln Edition" (18 February 1982, p. 4)

  • "The Conservation Revolution" see "Notes on the Conservation Revolution" below

  • “A Copper Company vs. the North Cascades” in Harper’s Magazine (September 1967, pp. 48-50)

  • “Courage of Rachel Carson” in Audubon (January 1987, pp. 12, 14-15) 

  • "The Disturbing Story of Project Chariot" with Joseph Foote in Harper's Magazine (April 1962, pp. 60-67)

  • "The Editorial Job in Wartime" in Publisher's Weekly (4 November 1944)

  • “England by Canoe” in The Atlantic (January 1958, pp. 93-96)  

  • "The Enjoyment of Wilderness" [paper given at the First World Conference on National Parks, 30 June-7 July 1962, Seattle, Washington]

  • “A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson” in Country Journal (December 1985, pp. 34-41)

  • “The Fight for America’s Alps” in The Atlantic (February 1967, pp. 87-90, 97-99)

  • “The First Owners” in Man & Nature: Land Use 1975 (Lincoln, MA: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1975, pp. 22-27)

  • “The Golden Plains of Tanganyika” in Horizon (Winter 1965, pp. 80-89)

  • “The Great Smokies” in The Atlantic (May 1959, pp. 63-66)  

  • "A Guide to Conservation Land in Lincoln" [speech, November 1992]

  • "Harvard Fiftieth Yearbook"

  • "Horticulture Ecology Award" [speech]

  • "Impressions of a Cross-Country Trip" [book review of The Continent in our Hands by Charles Ogburn] in Boston Sunday Globe (7 November 1971, p. A-19)

  • "Introduction" to Patricia Cauldfield's The Everglades

  • "Introduction" to Louis and Margery Milne's A World Alive

  • “Isle Royale” in The Atlantic (September 1960, pp. 74-78)

  • “Just a Country Boy Who Found His Niche” in Audubon (May 1984, pp. 48-59)  

  • "The Life of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" in Intellectual Digest (June 1972, pp. 57-64]

  • "Light from a Meetinghouse Window" in Arthur Griffins' New England's Four Seasons 

  • "Lincoln and Beyond: A Conversation with Paul Brooks" [interview by Petie Heijn] in The Lincoln Review (May/June 1982, pp. 13-14)

  • "Lincoln Land Use Conference, Lincoln, Massachusetts, November 19, 1977, a Summary Report" 

  • "A Lively Year in our Parent Town" [speech]

  • “Living in the Clouds” in The Atlantic (June 1956, pp. 54-57)  

  • "Lovell Thompson" in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1986, pp. 144-147)

  • “Man’s Way with the Wilderness” in Horizon (March 1960, pp. 12-16)  

  • "Marcia Moss Retirement" [speech]

  • “Mexico’s California” in The Atlantic (September 1964, pp. 69-73)  

  • "Monadnock Conservancy Address" [speech, August 1994]

  • More Words, Less Communication" see "Words vs. Communication" below

  • "Morgan Smith" [speech, May 1993]

  • "Natural History as Literature" [dialogue with Edward Lueders, 22 February 1988, transcript]

  • "New England's Old Way of Life Shapes Lincoln" with photographs by Marvin E. Newman, in Smithsonian (August 1976, pp. 74-77)

  • "Not Just a Suburb" with Susan Brooks, in The Lincoln Review (March/April 1991, pp. 13, 15-16)

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  • "Notes on the Conservation Revolution" in Sierra Club Bulletin (January 1970, pp.16-17); reprinted as "The Conservation Revolution" in Wildlife Review (September 1970, pp.16-17) 

  • "An Old-Fashioned Naturalist: Robert Cushman Murphy"

  • “Painter as Naturalist” in Sierra Club Bulletin (March/April 1983, pp. 88-91)  

  • "The Pen is Mightier Than the Bulldozer" [speech: Scripps College, 1981; Thoreau Lyceum,. 1981] [unpublished]

  • "The Peterson Filed Guide Series"

  • “The Plot to Drown Alaska” in The Atlantic (May 1965, pp. 53-59; reprinted in Reader’s Digest, August 1965, pp. 79-83) including “’The Plot to Strangle Alaska’ by Ernest Guerning, Paul Brooks Replies” in The Atlantic (July 1965, pp. 56-59)

  • “The Pressure of Numbers” in The Atlantic (February 1961, pp. 54-56) 

  • "Prior to our Losing 'Before'" [unpublished]

  • "Rachel Carson" in The Nature Conservancy News (Summer 1964, pp. 3-4)

  • "Rachel Carson" in National Wildlife (February/March 1972)

  • "Rachel Carson and Silent Spring"

  • "Rachel Carson: The Scientist as Writer" [speech, AAAS, 20 February 1976]

  • “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring” in The Lincoln Review (May/June 1993, pp. 7,10)

  • “Roadless Area” in The Atlantic (June 1954, pp. 47-50)

  • “A Roadless Area Revisited” in Audubon (March 1975, pp. 28-37)  

  • "Roger Tory Peterson" [profile] in The Dolphin (March 1984, pp. 8-9)

  • “Room for Living: the Lincoln Experience” in Audubon (September 1967, pp. 102-107)  

  • "Saving Quetico-Superior: A Land Set Apart by R. Newell Searle" [book review] in Minnesota History (Spring 1978, pp. 34-35)

  • “The Seed of a Conscience” in  Audubon (November/December 1967, pp. 36-37)

  • "The Sierra Club"

  • “The Spirit of ‘Eight-Fifteen’” in The Atlantic Monthly (August 1943, pp. 107, 109)

  • “St. Mark’s School Founded in Southboro, 1865” in Town & Country (1 October 1933, pp 46-49, 72)  

  • "Suburban Land Use" in The Conservation Leader (September 1968, pp. 3-4)

  • “Superjetport or Everglades Park?” in Audubon (July 1969, pp. 4-11)  

  • "The Sweetest Water-Lane in the World" in  Audubon (July 1970, pp. 34-36, 41-45)

  • "This agreement for the future of the Van Leer farm..."  in Completing a Conservation Corridor from Route 20 to Route 2 (Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1994?)

  • "Thoreau Society Anniversary" [speech]

  • “Thoreau’s Joyful Search for Truth” in Country Journal (September 1975, pp. 80-87)

  • "Though Every Day May Not be Christmas--"

  • “Three-Mile Portage” in The Atlantic (March 1962, pp. 82-85)

  • “Tonic of Wilderness” in Country Journal (September 1977, pp. 66-71)

  •   “Town Meeting Tonight” in Country Journal (March 1977, pp. 40-43)  

  • "A Town with Room for Living" with Susan Brooks, in The New York Times (13 June 1971, p. D37)

  • “Two in a Canoe” in The Atlantic (July1942, pp. 95-97)

  • “The Two Johns: Burroughs and Muir” in Sierra Club Bulletin (September/October 1980, pp. 51-58)

  • “The Uses of a Canoe” in Country Journal (June 1974, pp. 40-45)  

  • "Valuing One Another" 

  • "Walden Earthcare Congress" [speech, 21 April 1990]

  • "WALK--to the Nearest Mountain" [unpublished]

  • “Warning: The Chain Saw Cometh” in The Atlantic (December 1971, pp. 95-99)

  • "Watch that Bird-Watcher!" [unpublished]

  • "Weekend on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers: A Warning to Thoreau-Lovers" [unpublished]

  • "Westchester Vassar Club Speech"  

  • "Weston Garden Club Speech"

  • “What is a Book Contract?” in The Atlantic (June 1949, pp. 78-79)

  • “Wild Africa’s Future?”  in Massachusetts Audubon (Autumn 1964, pp. 240-244)

  • “Wild Rivers” in Joint Report of the Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior (May 1965, p. 33)  

  • “The Wilderness Ideal” in The Living Wilderness (September 1980, pp. 4-12)  

  • “Wilderness in Western Culture” in Sierra Club Bulletin (December 1965,  pp. 7-9)  

  • "Women's National Books Association Speech" [23 October 1992]

  • "Words vs. Communication" [Roxbury Latin School Graduation Day Address, 5 June 1959] published as "More Words, Less Communication" in Lincoln Review (June 1980, pp. 1-5)

  • “The Words We Work With” in Sierra Club Bulletin (April 1968, pp. 17-19)

  • “Young Emerson’s Teacher: Born a Century Too Soon” in The Lincoln Review (March/April 1965, pp. 29, 31) 

 

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