Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.

There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except craw…

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

A hat not much the worse for wear.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, th…

Do not judge your fellow man until you have come into his situation.