Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

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

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.