So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

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

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

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.

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

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.

For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.