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

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 one's own land?

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.