A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

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

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.