To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrantsโa very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
Aldo LeopoldCivilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.
Aldo Leopold. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.
Aldo Leopold