A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold is and environmental handbook on how people should view and treat the environment as well as how people actually interact with the environment. Leopold takes the reader through his own experiences on the land and by doing so instills the idea of awareness in the mind of the reader. Leopold wrote, “A March morning is only as drab as he who walks in it without a glance skyward, ear cocked for geese” (pg. 18). Aldo Leopold had many things in mind while writing A Sand County Almanac; Along with the hope that society could become aware of the environment, Aldo Leopold also hoped that this awareness would one day bring about a land ethic.
The basis of Leopold’s book revolves around several ideas, one is on the premise that nature is in a balance. “I
Aldo Leopold wrote A Sand County Almanac for many reasons; in general it was to educate people on the importance of the environment. More specifically, I believe Leopold hoped to inspire future generations to look past economic and personal issues when dealing with the environment. Leopold believed that, “a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided. It tends to ignore, and thus eventually eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning” (pg. 214). It is true that most people today pass the environment off as not being their problem; however, until society consciously chooses it to make it their problem, the environment will be threatened by man. “A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteratio
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