Sand County Almanac

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The Sand County Almanac is an aggregate of essays by conservationist, wildlife ecologist, philosopher, and educator Aldo Leopold. Although many people may accurately classify A Sand County Almanac as an account of observations about wild things, it must also be acknowledged that it is an account of observations about humans as well. Leopold focuses on the dichotomy between those who can live without wild things and those who cannot. Through these essays, Leopold intends to convince the reader (and then humanity) that they in fact cannot live without wild things; in Leopold’s words, “These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot” (Leopold vii). Throughout the book and especially in his essay titled “Odyssey”, Leopold explains …show more content…
Not only will humanity’s actions continue to harm the wild things, but these effects will already be coming full circle and putting human lives at risk. Undeniably, these negative effects will continue to worsen and conservation will become more and more of a trying task until humanity can shift the ways in which we perceive and interact with the environment. While telling this atomic story, Leopold makes impressive use of the personification of X and Y to make it easier for the reader to connect and relate to wild things. Readers may notice Leopold uses personification extensively throughout the entirety of the Sand County Almanac and especially in “Odyssey”. This tactic of consistently personifying the environment proves to be extremely effective at shaping a plot and engaging the reader in the otherwise static observational text. In one didactic example, Leopold writes, “The atoms that once grew pasque-flowers to greet the returning plovers now lie inert, confused, imprisoned in oily sludge” (108). This excerpt does a wonderful job of highlighting the dramatic and tragic destiny of the spotlighted

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