Aldo Leopold - 'A Sand County Almanac'

This weeks Green Thought is taken from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac ( written in the 30’s and 40’s). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac

(from ‘Thinking like a mountain’ in ‘A Sand County Almanac’.)

‘We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realised then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and the mountain. I was young then and full of trigger-itch; I felt that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.