"Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring sh…"

"When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not…"

"Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of…"

"It is a century now since Darwin gave us the first glimpse of the origin of species. We know now what was unknown to …"

"The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills not only because of their novelty, but because they repr…"

"There are a few sections of uncut timber, luckily state-owned."

"Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there."

"Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization."

"Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered thei…"

"On a fair morning the mountain invited you to get down and roll in its new grass and flowers (your less inhibited hor…"