Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. - Aldo Leopold

Hunts differ in flavor, but the reasons are subtle. The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody’s nose.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.