A Sand County Almanac

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 Shakespeare

Helen Macdonald

These 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 day

Isabella Tree

A classic ... there are moments of soft beauty [and] his epigrams are whipcrack smart

Robert Macfarlane, Wall Street Journal

A trenchant book, full of vigor and bite

The New York Times

One of the seminal works of the environmental movement

Boston Globe