Stop 3: Drive to the Shack

During your short drive to the Shack, enjoy the tune “Loving Pines,” written and performed by Tim Southwick Johnson. “Loving Pines” is from the album Sand County Songs, which was inspired by A Sand County Almanac. You can purchase the CD of Sand County Songs in the Leopold Center Bookstore!

 

Lyrics

[Instrumental opening]

My farm is a poor old farm

It’s busted down and dry

We’re planting trees

To ease the pain

To heal the land, we strive

Wee little pines live through winter’s cold

About half the time, I’m told

This brown dust circles ’round my feet

And it robs the land of life

[Chorus]

Planting pines and loving you

Makes the farm grow strong

Planting pines and loving you

Makes the world grow strong

 

Now on the top there’s a new green bud

It’s like a candle in the sky

It leads the way, it lights our path

It’s lifting life up to the sky

[Chorus]

Planting pines and living you

Makes the farm grow strong

Planting pines and loving you

Makes the world grow strong

[Instrumental break]

The land will be what it will be

We watch our work unfold

I learn to fight, I learn to heal

I learn to strive for all

And as I hold on to this land

I’m glad that I’m not alone

[Chorus]

Planting pines and loving you

Makes the farm grow strong

Planting pines and loving you

Makes the world grow strong

 

 

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The development of this self-guided tour was funded in part by:

The Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin

Sauk County Extension Education, Arts & Culture Committee and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin

Wisconsin Humanities, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wisconsin Humanities strengthens our democracy through educational and cultural programs that build connections and understanding among people of all backgrounds and beliefs throughout the state.