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.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.