We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.