The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.

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

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