Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

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.

There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity’s control.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.

I come to oil country with a book about radicals who wish for the end of pipelines. But that’s not what it’s about. It’s the friction point of prosperity and concern, ability and disability, the...

The only time I get to be alone is while traveling.””Except this week,” Charlie said.He turned his head and she saw herself reflected in his shades. “True. And you’re not at all what I expected.”Not...

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced...

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible...

If you wipe a dirty spot off a wall you’ve removed it, but you haven’t eliminated it. You’re stuck with a dirty rag you didn’t have before.

..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don’t have enough natural resources,...

Charlie swallowed. He was gloriously sexy. The hottest man she’d ever seen with his sculpted chest and abs., narrow waist, long muscular legs dusted with dark brown hair. Her gaze roamed over every inch of...

Ek is meer bekommerd dat daar nie meer bome vir papier is nie as wat ek bekommerd is oor die toekoms van Afrikaans.

The Holy Land is everywhere

He tossed her over his shoulder and stalked back to the bedroom.”What do you think you’re doing?””I’ve had enough babysitting duty. It’s time for some grownup action.

Management” of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we know of in a forbidding universe. We all depend on it...

Connor couldn’t be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, “First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies.

For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists…. The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those who would leave it be…. The only sensible way forward lies...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

With a gentle touch, she brushed the hair off his forehead. “I was sort of hoping you’d be a little more relaxed today.”He took her hand and kissed it.”I’m very relaxed.””Finally?” She raised her eyebrows...

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his...

I’d drive a thousand miles just to learn how to conserve gas and help save the environment. But that’s just who I am. I’m a thoughtful guy.

Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only...

At dusk in the Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, Melissa Overton barely heard the constant sound of crickets chirping all around them. Prowling through the dense, tropical rainforest as a jaguar, she listened for...

We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way...

In conservation, the motto should always be ‘never say die’.

He parked the car, pressed the button for the roof to fold back, and undid his seat belt. “It’s an emergency.”Goldilocks giggled. She unfastened her belt and hopped onto her knees. “Yes, I can see”...

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the...

Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided massacre, but so was Bosnia and there the ceasefire is...

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting...

He chuckled. ‘Come here.”She hesitated.’ We don’t have to do anything. Just … sleep.’ She let out her breath on a heavy sign. ‘You don’t want to just sleep.’ Then she moved in next to...

Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in...

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we...

Feel free to check out the hotel and talk to the staff,” he said slipping out of bed. “And I’m happy to give you an up-close look at what we’re doing.” When she didn’t answer,...

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less...

For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news — as you learn how much more of it’s been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that...

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has...

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here – the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but...

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will...

But if you wake up and are feeling….needy…

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has...