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We have forgotten that we are connected to all of our relations on earth, not just our human family. We have forgotten that we have responsibilities to all these relations, just as we have them to our human family.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over or in the earth. Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and … Continue reading →

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

For a great tree death comes as a gradual transformation, its vitality ebbs slowly. Even when life has abandoned it entirely it remains a majestic thing. On some hilltop a dead tree may dominate the landscape for miles around. Alone … Continue reading →

What do we mean by living in harmony with the earth? Does it mean that you never kill, that you live in a log cabin, that you don’t reproduce, that you own nothing? Of course it doesn’t. In practice, what … Continue reading →

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at … Continue reading →

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot… like winds and sunset, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.

We are still in transition from the notion of man as master of the earth to the notion of man as a part of it.

We are all uniquely ourselves – fascinatingly, wonderfully, and irritatingly different – and we are all very much the same, tightly woven together in the vast web of humanity.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that … Continue reading →