Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

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

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

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.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.