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

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

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

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..

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

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

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….

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..

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..

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….

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….

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals..

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

In wildness is the salvation of the world..

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

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….

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….

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

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..