Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man..

America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open s….

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life..

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By….

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness..

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We ….

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants..

Washington's a cesspool of money..

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality..

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt..

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go..

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The lan….

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of l….

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea..

For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances ….

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission..

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you ma….

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are..

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth..