Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

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.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Conservation viewed in its entirety is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

All conservation of wildness is self defeating for to cherish we must see and fondle and when enough have seen and fondled there is no wilderness left to cherish.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on ones own land

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

To the mouse snow means freedom from want and fear. ... To a rough legged hawk a thaw means freedom from want and fear.

No hobby should either seek or need rational justification. To wish to do it is reason enough. To find reasons why it is useful or beneficial converts it at once from an avocation into an industry.

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

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

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

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

There are two sides to every question.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.