The proof that conservation has not yet touched these foundations of conduct lies in the fact that philosophy and religion have not yet heard of it. In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad.
Environmentalists are a privileged minority.
We can never have enough of nature. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854. John F. Kennedy, speech June 28, 1963. The further you go from a mature society back toward the frontier, the less acceptable is the ecologic viewpoint of how to plan resource use. Starker Leopold in Frank F. Darling and John P. Milton, eds.