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

In wildness is the salvation of the world.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

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

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

There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.