After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

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.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.