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.
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
The chief factor in any man’s success or failure must be his own character.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.