Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future gene….

Life is good to those who know how to live. I do not ever hope to accumulate great funds of worldly wealth, but I shall accumulate something far more….

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone h….

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons.

One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one….

Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all thi….

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it ….

Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society,….

In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary h….

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water..

And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and w….

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege..

While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also kn….

There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a cano….

Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in pres….

It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores….

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think ….

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equi….

Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve i….

I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a….

Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water ….