Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals

Many of the attributes most distinctive of America and Americans are the impress of the wilderness. … Shall we now exterminate this thing that made us Americans?

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.

Our new camp is on a windswept rock point. … We don't know what lake we're on, and don't care ...

Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.