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

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

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.