Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

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

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.