“What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. It is the law of average. Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man’s particular daily behaviors and waves of life into his coves and inlets,and where they intersect will be the height of depth of his character” (Walden 315).

“The murmur of the pine’s green branches isa in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak, she cannot tell the heron’s secret and give its life away” (The White Heron 1207).

“The exploration and conquest of the northern United States and Canada were propelled in large part by the economic rewards of dinging, catching, killing, eviscerating, and skinning these fifty-pound aquatic rodents” (Nature Wars 69).

“Based on the head and thrown away? He’s right, but that’s not what the voters I talked to thought they had approved. The clear message of the anti trapping forces was: Vote for this initiative and animals won’t die” (Nature Wars 84).