The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.


Round River (ed. Oxford University Press, 1972) - ISBN: 9780199770649

Aldo Leopold Quotes

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

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

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

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