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

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

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

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

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.