Pre-dawn is the pleasantest and least useful time of day

Evidence

Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. It is strange that of all the multitude of creatures who must rise in the morning at some time, only these few should have discovered the most pleasant and least useful time for doing it. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 216

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Darkness frees the ear to imagine more than daylight’s eye confirms — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 220; Dawn signals propagate twenty times more effectively than midday ones — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1682

Broader Connections

• Dawn signals propagate twenty times more effectively than midday ones #responds-to (0.72) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1682