It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

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

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.