For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

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