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

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

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

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.

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