We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

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

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.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.