"You are tired with years of civilization. I come and offer you—what?—a single green leaf."

"Much killing brings in time, no longer triumph, but a revulsion of feeling."

"Reforestation is not preservation but substitution. These kitchen garden forests could never replace the magnificent forests of great trees that they supplanted."

"The average Canadian doesn’t know his own country. And that is why that great heritage of ours that lies to the north is being destroyed, wiped off the face of the earth while we sit complacently."