Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

Common sense often makes a good law.

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

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.

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.