If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.