QUOTES
The
battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is part of the eternal
conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it .
. . So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always
be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.
Everybody
needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray in, where Nature may heal
and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
"...Unfortunately,
MAN is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway.
If the importance of forests were at all understood, even from an economic standpoint,
their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government."
In every
walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The
clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Thousands
of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going
to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks
and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers,
but as fountains of life.
Tug
on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
These
temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect
contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains,
lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
