![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere and a final section in which Leopold addresses the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation.Ī Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world. “First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times as ‘a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite,’ Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America’s relationship to the land. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. ![]()
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