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

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.