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

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

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

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.