Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

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.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

In wildness is the salvation of the world.