“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” Aldo Leopold penned that as the opening line of his classic, A Sand County Almanac. By “wild things,” he meant all of them — prairie flowers, free-ranging wildlife, stands of grass, streams, lakes and forests, and geese passing overhead. Leopold’s statement presumed there would be wild places for people to enjoy those wild things. He could not live without them. Neither can we. That’s why parks are so precious. Today, most Texans live an easy drive from one of many state parks,
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