Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

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.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

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

I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it