Sierra Club Book Club: A Sand County Almanac

From the Sierra Club –

All the meetings have been well attended and there have been engaging conversations at all of them.  In October, we will be meeting to discuss the book, “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold.  I’m excited to read this again and it is well known to be one of the best works of naturalist writings and is on par with anything by John Muir, Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson.  It was required reading for all Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences majors when I was in college.  Aldo Leopold is known as the father of Wildlife Biology.

The following is copy/pasted from Amazon.com: 

“…A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America’s relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and a final section in which Leopold addresses the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation….”

November’s book is “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  This book comes well reviewed and suggested by Sierra Club book club participants.

December’s book is “A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir” by Donald Worster.

The book club meets at the (Rock Garden) picnic tables just uphill from the Zilker Theater.