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

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

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

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.