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.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

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

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.