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

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

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

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.