It’s five days and counting until the US election, and yes,
for reasons that I won’t get into here because EVERYONE and his dog is getting
into it, this is the most important election the modern world has ever seen. (I
know, but believe it or not, grandiosity is called for).
That’s why I couldn’t be happier to be reading for the first
time Aldo Leopold’s nature classic, “A Sand County Almanac.” http://bit.ly/2esfyey Here’s the theme, as
written by Leopold 67 years ago:
“It is a century now since Darwin gave us the first glimpse
of the origin of the species. We know now what was unknown to all the preceding
caravan of generations: that men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures
in the odyssey of evolution. This new knowledge should have given us, by this
time, a sense of kinship with fellow-creatures; a wish to live and let live; a
sense of wonder over the magnitude and duration of the biotic enterprise.”
Get that? A kinship with fellow-creatures? Wow! Live and let
live? Not, fight dirty and dirtier. Brook no quarter. Don’t be a loser.
Be a winner this election season. Pick up a copy of “Sand
County Almanac” and take a quiet breath, if only for the length of time it takes to
read this 226-page treasure.
Next: Running for Your Life: Leaf It to Me
