To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason... then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.


Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781439125274

David Quammen Quotes

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens...

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens...

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens...

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens...