Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

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.

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.