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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.
Your Town Reads Leopold
There are some who can live
without wild things, and some
who cannot. These essays are the
delights and dilemmas of one who
cannot.
JANUARY:
January Thaw
FEBRUARY:
Good Oak
“Rest!” cries the chief sawyer,
and we pause for breath.
MARCH:
The Geese Return
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!
APRIL:
Draba




         The
         smallest
         flower
         that
         blows
Bur Oak




          Photo by Virginia Kline
Bur oak is the only tree that can
stand up to a prairie fire and live …
its cork is armor.
He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a
historical library, and a reserved seat in the theater of evolution.
Sky Dance




I must be sure that,
come April, there be
no dearth of dancers
in the sunset sky.
MAY:
Back from the Argentine




        Whoever invented
        the word „grace‟
        must have seen
        the wing-folding
        of the plover.
JUNE:
The Alder Fork
JULY:
       Great Possessions




… it is a fact, patent both to my
dog and myself, that at
daybreak I am the sole owner of
all the acres I can walk over.
Prairie Birthday
… 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 …
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.
AUGUST:
                                                 The Green Pasture




I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all …
… except
by some
wandering
deer.
SEPTEMBER:
The Choral Copse
OCTOBER:
Smoky Gold
Too Early



Getting up too early is a vice habitual in
horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains.
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.
Red Lanterns
… I think that blackberries must first have learned how to glow
in the sand counties of central Wisconsin.
NOVEMBER: If I Were the Wind
A tree tries to
argue, bare
limbs waving,
but there is no
detaining
the wind.
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.
A Mighty Fortress
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.
DECEMBER: Home Range
Pines
Above
The
Snow
6-5-2-9-0
To band a
bird is to hold
a ticket in a
great lottery.
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.
MARSHLAND ELEGY
The quality of
cranes, I
think, lies in
this higher
gamut, as yet
beyond the
reach of
words.
And so they live and have their being – these cranes – not in the constricted
present, but in the wider reaches of evolutionary time.
Like a white ghost of a glacier, the mists advance … sliding across
bogmeadows heavy with dew. A single silence hangs from horizon
to horizon.
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.
ON A MONUMENT TO
    THE PIGEON




For one species to mourn
another is a new thing
under the sun.
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.
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.
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
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
CHEAT TAKES OVER
CLANDEBOYE




Education, I
fear, is
learning to see
one thing by
going blind to
another. One
thing most of
us have gone
blind to is the
quality of
marshes.
CONSERVATION
                                             ESTHETIC




To promote perception is the only truly
creative part of recreational engineering.
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.
Let us now consider another component of recreation, which is
more subtle and complex: the feeling of isolation in nature.
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

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Your Town Reads Leopold

  • 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.
  • 6. “Rest!” cries the chief sawyer, and we pause for breath.
  • 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!
  • 9. APRIL: Draba The smallest flower that blows
  • 10. Bur Oak Photo by Virginia Kline
  • 11. Bur oak is the only tree that can stand up to a prairie fire and live … its cork is armor.
  • 12. He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a historical library, and a reserved seat in the theater of evolution.
  • 13. Sky Dance I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.
  • 14. MAY: Back from the Argentine Whoever invented the word „grace‟ must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
  • 16. JULY: Great Possessions … it is a fact, patent both to my dog and myself, that at daybreak I am the sole owner of all the acres I can walk over.
  • 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.
  • 27. … I think that blackberries must first have learned how to glow in the sand counties of central Wisconsin.
  • 28. NOVEMBER: If I Were the Wind
  • 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.
  • 36. To band a bird is to hold a ticket in a great lottery.
  • 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
  • 49. CLANDEBOYE Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another. One thing most of us have gone blind to is the quality of marshes.
  • 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