"Wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us . . . , the opportunity to see wild geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech."
Aldo Leopold, 1949
Photo: The first foothills pasqueflowers of the season! Young Gulch, Roosevelt National Forest, CO, March 20, 2012
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