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.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.