A Sand County Almanac

This book was recommended to us when we were at our NFH Convention in Reno.  I did not know much about Aldo Leopold . . . Shame on me.  He is a noted conservationist, and wow, can he write!  My favorite passage so far:

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.

A cardinal, whistling spring to a thaw but later finding himself mistaken, can retrieve his error by resuming his winter silence.  A chipmunk, emerging for a sunbath but finding a blizzard, has only to go back to bed.  But a migrating goose, staking two hundred miles of black night on the chance of finding a hole in the lake, has no easy chance for retreat.  His arrival carries the conviction of a prophet who has burned his bridges.

Isn't it beautiful?  And this is just two paragraphs!  I already love this book!