One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.