Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

Grown men do not need leaders.

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.