There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

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

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.