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

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

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.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

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