"Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential."

"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."

"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings."

"Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most."

"I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!"

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."

"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."