• In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

    Aldo Leopold: In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
    Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.115, Island Press