For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

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

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.