Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.

In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.