Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness to heaven; one may never get there.

Pat Caddell, 1972

I knew this (McGovern's) campaign was too god-damn honest! It was bound to get us in trouble... Now I understand why the North Vietnamese wouldn't agree to elections in the South.

T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

Between the idea
And the reality
...
Falls the Shadow

Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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.