Able Quote by Aldo Leopold

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

— Jim Fowler

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or…

— Annie Dillard

“Slaps in the face like this provide opportunities for change. A drought definitely gets people thinking about how they can manage resources better. It’s…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river.…

— Aldo Leopold

“This leads to drought and runoff, which then causes erosion and floods. However, this situation can be reversed by managing land in such a…

— Judith D. Schwartz

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost…

— Sandra Postel

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet…

— Hal Borland

There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Allan Savory’s belief that drought and floods are man-made and therefore not inevitable opens the way for a different response. With this principle in…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

— Stephen Ambrose

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance…

— Sophocles

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

— Paul McCartney