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

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.