I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

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.