"Very few other animals have challened our actions and behaviours as much as the beaver has. We plant a tree; beavers cut it down. We build a road; beavers can dig right through the roadbed and turn it into a creek. We drain a landscape; beavers buid a dam and bring the water back. There is something in that persisten drive to sustain water on the landscape that is a clue for our own survial as a species. 

Glynnis Hood | The Beaver Manifesto

2011