A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
227 pages
Published 1949
Read June 21
Rating: ★★★★ out of 5
The
better part of education, I think, is evocation. Anyone who remains
unmoved through Leopold's depiction of the yearly cycle of nature at his
sand farm, or his "sketches" of places like the Colorado Delta (before
it was tragically dammed and destroyed), is probably a hopeless case.
Leopold's plea for an ecological consciousness -- or even an ecological
conscience -- is depressing; over sixty years later, we still face the
same problems, engage in the same or worse destructive practices, and
have yet to make a serious effort to address the same pressing issues
that have only gotten more dire with time.
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