Summary Of A Sand County Almanac By Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin who published A Sand County Almanac in 1949. He wrote about nature in different ways throughout his book. The writing varies from the landscape to the animals. He describes different areas he has been to; these range from near his home in Wisconsin down to the New Mexico and Arizona area. Leopold uses a unique style of writing for this time period. Very little is known about nature at the time he published his book compared to today. The goal of A Sand County Almanac seems to be that Leopold wants to inform the common man about the what really goes on in nature versus what is perceived is going on during this time. During the time before the publication animals were hunted in masses and farming was being done everywhere possible. This causes great problems for nature which Leopold addresses in his book. Leopold uses various examples and a profound literary style known as cause/effect to show that over time humans have greatly harmed the environment. …show more content…
Each section discusses the beauty of nature. In the section entitled, The Green Pasture he compares nature to the art of painting. While reading you can feel the beauty of nature through the incredible voice of Leopold’s writing. An example of this being, “The artist has now laid his colors, sprayed them with dew. The Eleocharis sod, greener than ever is now spangled with blue mimulus, pink dragon-head, and the milk-white blooms of Sagittaria (52).” This is just a small taste of the descriptive poetic style Leopold uses. Through this, a reader can feel absorbed in the beauty of nature that is surrounding the writer while he describes the