Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.