I look forward to visiting a national park and not holding a press conference in there. I look forward to being able to contemplate the wilderness without having reporters and their notebooks following me.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.