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

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.