Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs.
That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
We face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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