We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

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

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

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