In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.