There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

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

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.

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.