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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
An oak is no respecter of persons.
That dark laboratory we call the soil.
The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.
In wildness is the salvation of the world.
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.
Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.
Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.
Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.
