For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

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

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.