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'Men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. [...] Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest' - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
If you can afford the time, do pick up this book if you haven't already, especially if you are interested in the environment. It was supposedly a landmark book in conservation writing and I can see why - he writes passionately and yet gently and his language is so pretty that I now have quotes from the book stuck all over my shelf. It's a bit slow-moving at first because he spends lots of time illustrating his wonderful relationship with his fellow-creatures like the foxes and the birds and the pasque-flowers but the essays at the end ('The Upshot') are very powerful. So PICK IT UP :)
If you can afford the time, do pick up this book if you haven't already, especially if you are interested in the environment. It was supposedly a landmark book in conservation writing and I can see why - he writes passionately and yet gently and his language is so pretty that I now have quotes from the book stuck all over my shelf. It's a bit slow-moving at first because he spends lots of time illustrating his wonderful relationship with his fellow-creatures like the foxes and the birds and the pasque-flowers but the essays at the end ('The Upshot') are very powerful. So PICK IT UP :)