Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers washing the future into the sea. He has not learned to think like a mountain. The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf's job of trimming the herd to fit the range. Sand County Almanac is an expression of bearing witness to ‘the law of diminishing returns,4’ as the human species cast dark shadows upon the land. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades. Book and dustjacket in Near Fine condition. Teal cloth with silver gilt letters on covers, original 3.50 price on dustjacket and no mention of 'Round River' on back flap. True first edition and first printing and first state book and dustjacket. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.…I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. 'A Sand County Almanac', Oxford Univerity Press,1949. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes - something known only to her and to the mountain. We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.
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