That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

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

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.