It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

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

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

There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

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