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….

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals..

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics..

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

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible….

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 ….

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

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?.

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….

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….

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….

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

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.

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

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….

In wildness is the salvation of the world..