• To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.

    Aldo Leopold: To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
    Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.223, Univ of Wisconsin Press