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

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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.

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

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

I have so much of you in my heart.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.