In wildness is the salvation of the world.

Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.