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.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

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.