“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 neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.” IfsThinkingYearsHas BeensRunningWaterFeetConditionsSolutionsFlowRiversUltimateDeeperWoodsHillsStreamsExcessFloodDrainsSwampsSpongesProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemDams Author:Hal Borland
“I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate. My wife and I have been going to a personal trainer for weights and balance twice a week for 10 years. My balance has improved tremendously and the weights decrease my age. I only feel 52, not 82.” FeelsYearsHeartHas BeensTwoAgeWalksMorningWifeWeekBalanceMy HeartExerciseWeightIncreaseAgingRateMy WifeHillsEach DayBikeDecreaseTrainersHeart Rate Author:Robert Bateman
“I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.” Has BeensMemoriesForeverCuttingTreeMassWideMilesEnjoyedHillsBranchesShadeValleysSunlightMagnificentNursingConcealedOutlinesLoftySceneryKentuckySwelling Book:A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
“We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.” PeopleYearsHas BeensMatterNextLandHillsImpunityProdigals Book:The Last Landscape Source: The Last Landscape