Land Ethics Quotes

A fallow field is a sin.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics..

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.