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A Sand County Almanac

by Aldo Leopold

  • FINISHED
  • Finished March 2017
  • First published 1949

ecology nature writing

Leopold’s essays follow a year on a worn-out Wisconsin farm and reflect on wildlife and land.   The final section sets out his land ethic, the idea that people should treat the land as a community they belong to.