The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understandin….

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for ….

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals..

In wildness is the salvation of the world..

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal..

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise..

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements..

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the camp….

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left..

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans..

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot..

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 lo….

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than tel….

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best..

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher….

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and ha….

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat c….

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part..