The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

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

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

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?