The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
There are no vacant lots in nature.
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.