The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists