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

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

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