"The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the comunity includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as the people. It cannot be right in the ecological sense, for the farmer to drain the last marsh, graze the last woods, or slash the last grove in his community, because in doing so he evicts a fauna, a flora, and a landscape whose membership in the community is older than his own, and is equally entitled to respect."

-Aldo Leopold, The River of The Mother of God & Other Essays

"It is important to remember that the responsibility of conservation rests with every one of us, from the farmer, to the land developer, to corporations large and small, to communities that allow unrestricted expansion of urban sprawl, right down to every person that owns even the smallest piece of this world. Communities are made of individuals, and the action, or inaction, of each individual will impact the community in some manner."

-David Jay Spyker, 2001