The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.