Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

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