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

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

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

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

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.