No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

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.

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.