If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed 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 We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

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

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.