In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.

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

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.