wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

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.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

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

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.

We write to make sense of it all.