What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

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

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

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