Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

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

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

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

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

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!