Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

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

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.