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[close] Leopold is so perceptive that reading him makes me feel completely oblivious. In his utterly non-compartmentalized awareness, all the wildflowers, bugs or birds have names and roles in the unfolding history of a continent. The marshlands are fields of high drama, more fascinating than TV. In reading the signs on every side, Leopold thinks like a Sherlock Holmes of outdoor crime scenes. His vocabulary in describing the joys of hunting, fishing, bird watching, or horse riding is so rich in specific terms that I feel like your typical Canadian listening to the narration of a cricket match. His poetic prose is so beautiful that to my dumbed-down ear that it seems to come from another civilization. It's marvelous how all this appreciation for other creatures leads naturally to Leopold's great Land Ethic, which is the next momentous step in humanity's ethical evolution, toward respect for every fellow-creature in our community of life.