MassACORN - March 2008: March

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Selection from Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"

March 2008: March

Selection from Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"

from "March"

A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold. A March morning is only as drab as he who walks in it without a glance skyward, ear cocked for geese. I once knew an educated lady, banded by Phi Beta Kappa, who told me that she had never heard or seen the geese that twice a year proclaim the revolving seasons to her well-insulated roof. Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Excerpts are from “A Sand County Almanac, with essays on conservation from Round River”, by Aldo Leopold and published by Oxford University Press (1966). For more information about Aldo Leopold, see www.aldoleopold.org. An inexpensive paperback version of Sand County Almanac published by Ballantine Books is widely available at book stores or on-line.

National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is our federal partner, providing federal assistance and program leadership for numerous research, education, and extension activities.

ACORN was supported originally (2006-2010) by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (grant number 2006-55101-16564), and continues to be supported by the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station and UMass Amherst Department of Environmental Conservation.