Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.