Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

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

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

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

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.