We All Strive For Safety, Prosperity, Comfort,

Patriotism Requires Less And Less Of Making The Eagle Scream, But More And More Of Making Him Think.

Wilderness Is A Resource Which Can Shrink But Not Grow. Invasions Can Be Arrested Or Modified In A Manner To Keep An Area Usable Either For Recreation, Science Or For Wildlife, But The Creation Of New Wilderness In The Full Sense Of The Word Is Impossible. It Follows, Then, That Any Wilderness Program Is A Rearguard Action, Through Which Retreats Are Reduced To A Minimum.

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 Example, One Need Be Neither God Nor Poet; One Need Only Own A Shovel.

There Are Two Things That Interest Me: The Relation Of People To Each Other, And The Relation Of People To Land.

The Last Word In Ignorance Is The Man Who Says Of An Animal Or Plant: 'what Good Is It?