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

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.

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.