We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Aldo LeopoldBut wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.
Aldo LeopoldDo we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
Aldo Leopold