We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

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

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

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.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

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.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.