Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

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.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.