If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

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 abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.