The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.