We Can Be Ethical Only In Relation

Wilderness Is The Very Stuff America Is Made Of.

A Land Ethic...reflects The Existence Of An Ecological Conscience, And This In Turn Reflects A Conviction Of Individual Responsibility For The Health Of The Land. Health Is The Capacity Of The Land For Self-renewal. Conservation Is Our Effort To Understand And Preserve This Capacity.

There Are Degrees And Kinds Of Solitude. I Know Of No Solitude So Secure As One Guarded By A Spring Flood; Nor Do The Geese, Who Have Seen More Kinds And Degrees Of Aloneness Than I Have.

Health Is The Capacity Of The Land For Self-renewal.

If The Land Mechanism As A Whole Is Good Then Every Part Is Good, Whether We Understand It Or Not.