'One of the most influential books about the natural world ever published'Paul Kingsnorth,Guardian'There are some who can live without wild things,and some who cannot,'begins Aldo Leopold's totemic work of ecological thought. Ranging from lyrical observations of the changing seasons over a year on his Wisconsin farm to his hugely influential idea of a'land ethic'signifying moral equilibrium between humans and all other life on earth,A Sand County Almanac changed perceptions of the natural world and helped give birth to the modern conservation movement.
'Anunequivocal statement of conscience that will carry down thegenerations...his argument seems more urgently true now than ever'The New York Times
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241402993Number of pages: 208Weight: 157 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
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Wise and lyrical meditations on environmental ethics,human and natural history,and the passage of time. Some measure of how fiercely good it is: a well-read,retired U.S. Army colonel once told me that he considered Leopold to be better than ShakespeareThese beautiful essays,based on the restoration of an exhausted 80-acre farm in the sand country of central Wisconsin,are full of insights rooted in intelligent humility that inform naturalists to this dayA classic...there are moments of soft beauty (and) his epigrams are whipcrack smartA trenchant book,full of vigor and biteOne of the seminal works of the environmental movement
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