The Way to Rainy Mountain and Sand County Almanac

             In the article "The Way to Rainy Mountain," by N. Scott Momaday, there are many interesting techniques and entries that are similar to that of Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac," particularly to the section Marshland Elegy, but there are also many distinct differences. In Momaday's essay he talks about the times in his childhood that he spent out in the plains by his grandmother. Momaday also talks about the Kiowa people, their culture, and the way their land was destroyed. What Leopold talks about in his essay is how a certain portion of swampland was destroyed to be farmland and how the water was drained out of the swamp. Leopold also talks about how this affects the animal's habitat and their ability to survive in what used to be the swamp.
             One similarity in these articles is that they both talk about nature and are relatively passionate about it. A passage from Leopold's essay that shows this is when he says, "Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language." An example that shows Momaday talking intensely about nature is when he states "A singe knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north, and west of the Wichita range. For my people, the Kiowas, and gave it the name Rainy Mountain.
             One difference in the two essays is the fact that Momaday uses a far less amount of descriptive words than Leopold does. An example of this in Leopold's case is when he says, "Like the white ghost of a glacier the mists advance, riding over phalanxes of tamarack, sliding across bogmeadows heavy with dew. A point where Momaday is descriptive, but not quite as descriptive as the writings of Leopold is when he says "Now that I can have only her memory, I see grandmother in several postures that were peculiar to her: standing at the wood stove on a winter morning and turning meat in a great iron skillet; sitting at th...

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