For One Species To Mourn The Death

Our Ability To Perceive Quality In Nature Begins, As In Art, With The Pretty. It Expands Through Successive Stages Of The Beautiful To Values As Yet Uncaptured By Language.

All History Consists Of Successive Excursions From A Single Starting-point, To Which Man Returns Again And Again To Organize Yet Another Search For A Durable Scale Of Values.

Wilderness, Then, Assumes Unexpected Importance As A Laboratory For The Study Of Land - Health.

We Shall Never Achieve Harmony With Land, Any More Than We Shall Achieve Absolute Justice Or Liberty For People. In These Higher Aspirations, The Important Thing Is Not To Achieve But To Strive.

Conservation Will Ultimately Boil Down To Rewarding The Private Landowner Who Conserves The Public Interest.