In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.