I Have Purposely Presented The Land Ethic

Wilderness, Then, Assumes Unexpected Importance As A Laboratory For The Study Of Land - Health.

There Are Two Things That Interest Me: The Relation Of People To Each Other, And The Relation Of People To Land.

Our Tools Are Better Than We Are, And Grow Better Faster Than We Do. They Suffice To Crack The Atom, To Command The Tides, But They Do Not Suffice For The Oldest Task In Human History, To Live On A Piece Of Land Without Spoiling It.

Conservation Is A Positive Exercise Of Skill And Insight, Not Merely A Negative Exercise Of Abstinence And Caution.

I Confess My Own Leisure To Be Spent Entirely In Search Of Adventure, Without Regard To Prudence, Profit, Self Improvement, Learning, Or Any Other Serious Thing.