I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

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

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

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

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.