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Title: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz ISBN: 0-19-500777-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply the best
Comment: Aldo Leopold wrote these famous words: "There are those of us who can live without wild things and those of us who cannot." For those of you who cannot, this is your book. Aldo Leopold was a great man like a great old tree, with roots anchored down to earth and an intellect branching out towards new ways of thinking and looking at the world. The combination results in keen observations highlighted by elegant prose. I usually can't read too far into this book without getting a lump in my throat.
Rating: 5
Summary: Like a mountain.
Comment: The "Almanac" has been published several ways during the past fifty years, I strongly recommend the book published by Oxford University Press. It includes Thinking like a Mountain, The Land Ethic, and other important essays.
From Leopold's Sketches: "Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language."
Scientist, educator, forester, philosopher, writer -- Aldo Leopold appears to many as something of an enigma. In his earlier writings, Leopold was a very different man than we find in this volume. In Leopold's own words: "I was young then, and full or trigger-itch." This insightful classic is a gentle, scholarly, fatherly collection of essays, observations and stories. Like Thoreau's Walden, it is revered, loved and widely imitated. Leopold: "Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf. ... The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf's job of trimming the herd to fit the range. He has not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have ... rivers washing the future into the sea."
Rating: 5
Summary: What else could be said?
Comment: How can one review something so brilliantly written? One can only say thank you to an author and person we lost much too early. American's need someone like Aldo Leopold again. Just when we had another brilliant soul, named Rachel Carson we too lost her. We have lost our way and desperatly need the likes of Leopold again before we pave everything, pollute the water and darken the sky. Maybe someone will appear as they have before, like Muir, Leopold and Carson; we can only hope. This book is a must!
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Title: Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold ISBN: 0345345053 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ISBN: 0618249060 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold (Galaxy Book, 372) by Aldo Leopold, Luna Bergere Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz ISBN: 0195015630 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1972 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Companion to a Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays by J. Baird Callicott ISBN: 0299112349 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation by Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell, Kenneth Brower ISBN: 0195146174 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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