The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.