What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.