A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

In wildness is the salvation of the world.