The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.