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.

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

The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.