Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

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

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

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.