Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

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

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.