I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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

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

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

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

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.

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

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

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

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

The only way to know the honesty of any person is to love them without desire.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

The way the parts of me sometimes disagree, it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter.