Nature Quotes

"The only way to keep our civilization in a relatively stable condition is to maintain as much wildness as possible."

"I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness."

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

"The land remembers. A clear cut is still a clear cut decades later."

"We grouse about taxes, labor, and prices, but we do not grouse about the loss of our wilderness."

"The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself."

"Conservation is repairing what the world is doing wrong."

"A sand county is an old place; old in character and old in wisdom."

"Wilderness areas are first of all a series of closely-observed records of the human mind."

"The trend of events so far in this century offers no reason to believe that parks will suffice."

"I believe that if all the animals were gone tomorrow, the human species would fail miserably within a few years."

"A deer in the hand is no better than a deer in the bush; both are worth more alive than dead."

"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."

"Land can be healthy without permanent human occupation, and its continued presence is prerequisite to anything Americans do, alone or in politics."

"The most important game animal, the one that takes the most effort to find, is the ruffed grouse."

"A song sparrow sings from the meadow, unaware that its days are numbered."

"The land-health concept is the basic wherewithall of conservation."

"The land remembers everything we do to it, good and bad, forever."

"The cultural value of wilderness has nothing to do with economics."

"The land is an organism, and conserving it is not something to be done for profit."

"The public is still unaware that a wilderness is a public utility."

"Plants are the great source of all life. Without plants, animals cannot exist."

"The wilderness we save is a measure of our respect for the land."

"Wildness is necessary to the fullness of life."

"The land is community, and we are the newest members of that community."

"A conservationist is one who understands the value of wild things and wild places."

"The opportunity to see geese is more valuable than the opportunity to shoot them."

"Land is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals."

"Wilderness areas are the one thing I would urge you to fight for."

"Integrity, beauty, and stability are the measure of a healthy land."