There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. - Aldo Leopold

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills not only because of their novelty, but because they represented complete freedom to make mistakes. … Perhaps every youth needs an occasional wilderness trip, in order to learn the meaning of this particular freedom.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.