The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

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.

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

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

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