Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

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

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

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.