The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues-self-restraint.

Do no dishonour to the earth lest you dishonour the spirit of man.

The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for dear earth itself underfoot.

It is good to realize that, if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Everything is perfect coming from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.