This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

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

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.