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

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

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

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.