At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.

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

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

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.