“the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.”

“The more you know, the less you need.”

“The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this wont happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.”

“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”

“Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when youre right on the edge, but you dont go over. You have ...”

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wi...”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its ...”

“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary ass...”

“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodat...”

“We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.”

“Going green doesnt start with doing green acts it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the...”

“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.”

“Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative”