Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

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

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

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.

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

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

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.