In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

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

In wildness is the salvation of the world.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.