Aldo Leopold Quote

We sensed that these two piles of sawdust were something more than wood: that they were the integrated transect of a century; that our saw was biting its way, stroke by stroke, decade by decade, into the chronology of a lifetime, written in concentric annual rings of oak.


A Sand County Almanac, with Essays on Conservation from Round, River, Part I, February (p. 10)


We sensed that these two piles of sawdust were something more than wood: that they were the integrated transect of a century; that our saw was biting ...

We sensed that these two piles of sawdust were something more than wood: that they were the integrated transect of a century; that our saw was biting ...

We sensed that these two piles of sawdust were something more than wood: that they were the integrated transect of a century; that our saw was biting ...

We sensed that these two piles of sawdust were something more than wood: that they were the integrated transect of a century; that our saw was biting ...