The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

In wildness is the salvation of the world.

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.