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

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

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

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.