The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.