It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear. - Aldo Leopold

Whoever invented the word ‘grace’ must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task.

That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.