Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

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.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.