I really like some forms of nature writing. Thoreau's Walden and Emerson's essay Nature are some of my top favourites.
In this regard, I picked up Aldo Leopald's highly acclaimed work A Sand County Almanac. So far I've read about 25% of the book and boy oh boy.. it has been a really tough read for me.
What I find the most difficult is the landscape he is describing and the activities he wrote about, the whole chapters upon chapters
– are just totally unrelatable to me. I don't really get a visual picture of what he's describing.
I'm an aspiring writer myself and I do have to say that some of the sentences he wrote are really insightful and the vocabulary he uses is great.. But that's about it. Other than a few sentences here and there, I'm not getting much out of it. It's a bit embarrassing to say for someone who wants to be a serious literary writer.
I guess my intellectual capabilities aren't yet sufficient to enjoy this apparently classic work of ecological writing. (Any tips on that?)
Now the inevitable question: Am I the only one?
by thebestnobody