This document contains PowerPoint presentations for public readings of essays from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold at Aldo Leopold Weekend events. Each presentation pairs the essay text with beautiful images to add a visual element. They were created by Dave Winefske, the event planner. Permission is only given to use the images within these presentations for the events. The document contains presentations for 14 essays, with the title, text, and 2-4 images for each one.
1. On this SlideShare page, you will find several Power Point presentations, one
for each of the most popular essays to read aloud from A Sand County Almanac
at Aldo Leopold Weekend events. Each presentation has the essay text right on
the slides, paired with beautiful images that help add a visual element to public
readings. Dave Winefske (Aldo Leopold Weekend event planner from Argyle,
Wisconsin) gets credit for putting these together. Thanks Dave!
A note on images within the presentations: we have only received permission
to use these images within these presentations, as part of this event. You will
see a photo credit slide as the last image in every presentation. Please be sure
to show that slide to your audience at least once, and if you don't mind leaving
it up to show at the end of each essay, that is best. Also please note that we do
not have permission to use these images outside of Aldo Leopold Weekend
reading event presentations. For example, the images that come from the Aldo
Leopold Foundation archive are not “public domain,” yet we see unauthorized
uses of them all the time on the internet. So, hopefully that’s enough said on
this topic—if you have any questions, just let us know. mail@aldoleopold.org
If you download these presentations to use in your event, feel free to delete this
intro slide before showing to your audience.
3. There are some who can live
without wild things, and some
who cannot. These essays are the
delights and dilemmas of one who
cannot.
8. One swallow does not make
a summer, but one skein of geese,
cleaving the murk of a March
thaw, is the spring.
What a dull world if we
knew all about geese!
18. … I watch eagerly a
certain country
graveyard that I
pass in driving to
and from my farm.
It is an ordinary
graveyard, bordered by
the usual spruces, and
studded with the usual
pink granite or white
marble headstones …
19. What a thousand acres of Silphium
looked like when they tickled the
bellies of the buffalo is a question
never again to be answered, and
perhaps not to be asked.
20. AUGUST:
The Green Pasture
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all …
24. Too Early
Getting up too early is a vice habitual in
horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains.
25. To arrive too early in the marsh is an adventure in pure listening;
the ear roams at will among the noises of the night, without let or
hindrance from hand or eye.
29. A tree tries to
argue, bare
limbs waving,
but there is no
detaining
the wind.
30. Axe-in-Hand
A conservationist is one
who is humbly aware that
with each stroke he is
writing his signature on
the face of the land.
Signatures of course differ,
whether written with axe
or pen, and this is as it
should be.
32. Every farm
woodland, in
addition to yielding
lumber, fuel, and
posts, should provide
its owner a liberal
education. This crop
of wisdom never
fails, but it is not
always harvested.
37. 65290 has long since gone to his reward. I hope that in
his new woods, great oaks full of ants’ eggs keep falling
all day long … and I hope that he still wears my band.
39. The quality of
cranes, I
think, lies in
this higher
gamut, as yet
beyond the
reach of
words.
40. And so they live and have their being – these cranes – not in the constricted
present, but in the wider reaches of evolutionary time.
41. Like a white ghost of a glacier, the mists advance … sliding across
bogmeadows heavy with dew. A single silence hangs from horizon
to horizon.
42. THE SAND COUNTIES
Perhaps the farmers who did not want to move out of the Sand Counties
had some deep reason, rooted far back in history, for preferring to stay.
43. ON A MONUMENT TO
THE PIGEON
For one species to mourn
another is a new thing
under the sun.
44. FLAMBEAU
Yet there remains the river, in a few spots hardly changed since Paul
Bunyan‟s day; at early dawn, before the motor boats awaken, one can still
hear it singing in the wilderness.
45. ILLINOIS BUS RIDE
I am sitting in a 60-mile-an-hour bus sailing over a highway originally laid out
for horse and buggy … in the narrow thread of sod between the shaved banks
and the toppling fences grow the relics of what once was Illinois: the prairie.
46. I now suspect that
just as a deer herd
lives in mortal fear
of its wolves, so
does a mountain
live in mortal fear
of its deer.
THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN
47. This song of the
waters is
audible to every
ear, but there is
other music in
these hills, by
no means
audible to all.
To hear even a
few notes of it
you must live
here a long
time, and you
must know the
speech of hills
and rivers.
SONG OF THE GAVILAN
50. CONSERVATION
ESTHETIC
To promote perception is the only truly
creative part of recreational engineering.
51. Public policies for outdoor recreation are controversial … thus the Wilderness
Society seeks to exclude roads from the hinterlands, and the Chamber of
Commerce to extend them, both in the name of recreation.
52. Let us now consider another component of recreation, which is
more subtle and complex: the feeling of isolation in nature.
53. Photo Credits
•Historic photographs: Aldo Leopold Foundation archives
•A Sand County Almanac photographs by Michael Sewell
•David Wisnefske, Sugar River Valley Pheasants Forever, Wisconsin Environmental Education Board, Wisconsin
Environmental Education Foundation, Argyle Land Ethic Academy (ALEA)
•UW Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium, R. Freckmann, V.Kline, E. Judziewicz, K. Kohout, D. Lee, K Sytma, R.
Kowal, P. Drobot, D. Woodland, A. Meeks, R. Bierman
•Curt Meine, (Aldo Leopold Biographer)
•Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Education for Kids (EEK)
•Hays Cummins, Miami of Ohio University
•Leopold Education Project, Ed Pembleton
•Bird Pictures by Bill Schmoker
•Pheasants Forever, Roger Hill
•Ruffed Grouse Society
•US Fish and Wildlife Service and US Forest Service
•Eric Engbretson
•James Kurz
•Owen Gromme Collection
•John White & Douglas Cooper
•National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
•Ohio State University Extension, Buckeye Yard and Garden Online
•New Jersey University, John Muir Society, Artchive.com, and Labor Law Talk