Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

- Hugh Hammond Bennett

Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands…

- Hugh Hammond Bennett

If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservatio…

- Hugh Hammond Bennett

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

- Hugh Hammond Bennett

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which al…

- Hugh Hammond Bennett

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct…

- Hugh Hammond Bennett