Quote by Steven Johnson

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Beavers hate the sound of running water; that’s partly why they build dams”

— Adam Anderson

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

— Bill Vaughan

“The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.”

— Norris Brock Johnson

“Beavers give a dam”

— Victor J. Garcia

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us…

— Aldo Leopold

I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment…

— Sam Abell

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole…

— Martin Puryear

“To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless…

— Aldo Leopold

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote…

— Ansel Adams

“The park was a scruffy patch of grass, muddy in winter and dusty in summer, set about with a few dozen trees, a bandstand,…

— Philip Pullman

“And, sure enough, saturation begins--the staedy work of seeps and springs. Then, suddenly, cottonwoods and willows spring from the sand, their leaves gyrating into…

— Amy Irvine