"If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which y…"

"Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured b…"

"We who have chopped and mined and built and machined our way to wealth and power now grope out from our cities...for …"

"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."

"Gross National Product is our Holy Grail; the economists and statisticians its keepers."

"Over the long haul of life on this planet it is the ecologists — and not the bookkeepers of business — who are the ul…"

"The real story of settlement was a story of work, not conquest."

"Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the Earth!"

"Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all …"

"America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasi…"