Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.