Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.