It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.