Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

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.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

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.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Progress - the stride of God!

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.