A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.
Don’t foul, don’t flinch-hit the line hard.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
Whatever it is, handle it so that your children’s children will get the benefit of it.
I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.
Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.
I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.
You can’t choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.
The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic – the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.