Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

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

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.