Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.

I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.