We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.