Birth: March 6, 1879 Death: December 11, 1975
For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the ….
There are three things: to walk, to see, and to see what you see..
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a b….
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether o….
My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded….
However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of th….
Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and h….
The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been consi….