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

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

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.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

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.

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

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.