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A Sand County Almanac is a combination of natural history, scene painting with words, and philosophy. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines his land ethic : "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community .
- Teresa L. Scheid-Cook, Aldo Leopold
- 1949
He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) is considered the father of wildlife ecology and a true Wisconsin hero. He was a renowned scientist and scholar, exceptional teacher, philosopher, and gifted writer. It is for his book, A Sand County Almanac, that Leopold is best known by millions of people around the globe.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. First published by Oxford University Press in 1949, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac has become a conservation classic, selling over 2 million copies worldwide and being translated into 15 languages.
May 1, 2024 · Aldo Leopold, American environmentalist whose book A Sand County Almanac (1949) was read by millions and strongly influenced the budding environmental movement. He worked for nearly 20 years for the U.S. Forest Service and later was director of the Audubon Society.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thinking like a mountain is a term coined by Aldo Leopold in his book A Sand County Almanac. In the section entitled "Sketches Here and There" Leopold discusses the thought process as a holistic view on where one stands in the entire ecosystem.
“First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times as ‘a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite,’ Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America’s relationship to the land.
