The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

. . . 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.