. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.