Henry DeForest

“A pair of wood thrushes is more valuable to a village than a Saturday evening band concert, and costs less.”
― Aldo Leopold, Game Management

“In short, twenty centuries of "progress" have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.”
― Aldo Leopold, Game Management

“If one has cut, split, hauled, and piled his own good oak, and let his mind work the while, he will remember much about where the heat comes from...”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“They say you can't step into the same river twice. But maybe a truer saying is that you can't ever dry off.”
― David Treuer, Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life