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.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

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.