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.

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

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

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.

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

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

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.