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A Sand County Almanac

Question 1. The book called “A Sand County Almanac” because it was about Leopold’s family experiences when they bought a house built on 120 acres on a washed-out sand farm on the Wisconsin River. This is his own words about life on his farm.
Question 2. Page 6 Today, few people live on farms or in wilderness. In “The Good Oak,” Leopold states that there are two spiritual dangers from not owning a farm. They are thinking that food comes from the grocery and that heat comes from a furnace. What does he mean? Everyone should raise a garden instead of buying food from a grocery store. With heat, people should cut, split, haul and stack wood so they don’t think heat magically appears. There is a certain self fulfillment in using the earth to supply our basic needs. What does the author learn from cutting his oak? How old the tree is by the rings. He gives a review of each year as he cuts through them rings. What can we learn from a close association with nature?......


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