Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.