It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

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.

A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too...each moment the more I love you.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather be. In the middle.