Protecting the Environment Through Land Use Law: Standing Ground, starts with this quote from Emerson, “All of my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” The quote introduces Chapter One of this book, which is entitled The Long Arch of Local Environmental Law, illustrating that law has been employed for centuries to balance land development and natural resource protection. The chapter begins with this background: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2014/10/protecting-the-environment-through-land-use-law-standing-ground.html