There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

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.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

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