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

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

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

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

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them