If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

An empty man is full of himself.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!)

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of huma…