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

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

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.

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

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.