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

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

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

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?