Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

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

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.

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.