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

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

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

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.