Eclectic Amateur

I’m working my way through A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to find and read it, given how highly Wendell Berry (and others) praise it.

Leopold is nearly as quotable as Chesterton. Here’s a sample:

There are two great spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.