Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

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

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

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

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.