I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.