A Sand County Almanac
  • Published: 26 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241402993
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99

A Sand County Almanac

And Sketches Here and There

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28 May 2020
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26 Mar 2020
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15 Dec 2014
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A vivid philosophical tour de force that initiated ecological thought and writing as we know it today

'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.
  • Published: 26 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241402993
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for 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

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