To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

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

Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.