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In January of Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold follows the tracks of a skunk on an early Spring treatise through the wood to determine its destination and learn its purpose. As the trail leads him from underbrush to glen he observes myriad tales echoed in the landscape. He is privy to a field mouse as it scurries between the sun melted breaks in the subarctic cause ways which wind their way to his foodstores. He watches as a hawk sworrls above, and he likens to a king fisher. And he is atune to the stirrings of a squirrel from the pinkish urinations it had left behind as a marker to its pas snowy scriptures tell where the lattices of a rabbit and an owl had overlapped in a background of survival...of life.
Leopold is methodical in his observations, yet he preserves the child-like aspect of nature. His writings and descriptions posess a sort of wide eyed wonder that captures the innocence or purity of wilderness and reader, unlike Throeau, who is a bit more esoteric.......

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