To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.