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

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

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.

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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.

We're all pretty individualistic.