Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.