Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

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

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.