The dog’s nose relates its olfactory world to the hunter’s visible one

Evidence

The dog, when he approaches the briars, looks around to make sure I am within gunshot. Reassured, he advances with stealthy caution, his wet nose screening a hundred scents for that one scent, the potential presence of which gives life and meaning to the whole landscape. He is the prospector of the air, perpetually searching its strata for olfactory gold. Partridge scent is the gold standard that relates his world to mine. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 228

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tracking a hidden dog requires reading every available indirect sound cue — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 232