Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

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

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.

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

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.