Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

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

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.