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

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.