“But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”

“The land is so much more than its analysis.”

“If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.”

“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”

“That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. ”

“The man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide over an outcropping, kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself, then the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land.”