There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

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

Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.