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

Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

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

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.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.