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

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

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

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.

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

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.