If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.