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.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.