#Birds are everywhere in the pages of #ASandCountyAlmanac. Is there one that reflects your personality?

Are you opportunistic like the chickadee, or "temperamental" like the woodcock? Do you live vicariously through others' drama, like the thick-billed parrot?

Share your match below. 🐦‍⬛

#Leopold

“Our biases are indeed a sensitive index to our affections, our tastes, our loyalties, our generosities, and our manner of wasting weekends.” ―Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

📷: Aldo Leopold and dog Gus in front of their pine trees, ca. 1940s

#WednesdayWisdom #AldoLeopold #ASandCountyAlmanac

White background with grayscale sketch of three Canada geese to the righthand side, beaks open, honking. Quote text to the lefthand side reads "One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring." Aldo Leopold, The Geese Return, A Sand County Almanac. A logo in the top right says The Aldo Leopold Foundation.

“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.”
—Aldo Leopold, "The Geese Return," A Sand County Almanac

#MondayMusings #AldoLeopold #ASandCountyAlmanac #Migration #Spring #CanadaGeese

Eight geese flying in a misty blue sky.

A favorite line from Aldo Leopold's classic of nature writing, *A Sand County Almanac*: "A March morning is only as drab as he who walks in it without a glance skyward, ear cocked for geese."
#favoritelinefridays #aldoleopold #asandcountyalmanac

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”

Funny how even 78 years later, the words of Aldo Leopold still ring a sad, lonely truth in the ecologists heart.

#AldoLeopold #ASandCountyAlmanac #Ecology #Nature

Tardy #QOTD for June 1, 2023, is from #ASandCountyAlmanac by #AldoLeopold “No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions." #Ethics