The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.