I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

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

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

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

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.