1. “The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.”
2. “Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.”
3. “Education, I fear, is learning to see ne thing by going blind to another.”
4. “We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life and dullness.”
5. “Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land.”
6. “In wildness is the salvation of the world.”
7. “Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
8. “The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.”
9. “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
10. “He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.”
11. “There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.”
12. “The landscape of any farm is the owner’s portrait of himself.”
13. “Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.”
14. “Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.”
15. “There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”
