Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

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

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

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

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.