Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.