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

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

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

Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.