No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

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