Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

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

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

Conservationists have, I fear, adopted the pedagogical method of the prophets: we mutter darkly about impending doom if people don't mend their ways. The doom is impending, all right; no one can be an ecologist, even an amateur one, without seeing it. But do people mend their ways for fear of calamity? I doubt it. They are more likely to do it out of pure curiosity and interest.