There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it?
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.
Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.