Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

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

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.