The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.

I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.

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.

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