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.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.

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