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

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

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

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.