The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

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.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

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