There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

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

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.