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

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

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