James A. Corbett > Quotes

“Even when technocratically civilized human beings are dedicated to preserving and appreciating wildlands, they are there as aliens. Protection then means the exclusion of an active human presence. A land ethic that is genuinely biocentric presupposes a biotic society in which humankind is desegregated—in which mutual bonding into the community has naturalized the human presence. This communion is not just a matter of meeting and knowing the land sabbatically and of gaining insight into the ecosystem’s interconnectedness; it also involves physical nurture.”
― James A. Corbett, Sanctuary for All Life: Wildland Pastoralism and the Peaceable Kingdom—The "Cowbalah" of Jim Corbett

“Lumping the corporate superperson with living people in our understanding of civil liberties and basic human rights can make it seem we are globalizing human rights and the rule of law when we are just opening the earth and all its inhabitants to unrestrained plunder.”
― James A. Corbett, Sanctuary for All Life: Wildland Pastoralism and the Peaceable Kingdom—The "Cowbalah" of Jim Corbett