"Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, an the general level of his ecological education." Chapter 7, pg. 44

"It is a river who wields the brush, and it is the same river who...erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye." Chapter 8, pg. 51

Almost anything can happen between one red lantern and another." Chapter 10 pg. 65

"Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants." Chapter 11 pg. 67

"A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land." Chapter 11, pg. 68

"I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in...