“More people engaging in recreation in the backcountry is bad for ecosystems, bad for wildlife, bad for all the non-human inhabitants of the last wild places.”— Christopher Ketcham, newrepublic.com
“The important thing—follow the rules and the woods will wordlessly accept me, sharing some of their peace and beauty. Cross the line, though, and beasts of silence lay in wait to maul me with razor-sharp claws.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The destruction of the earth is due in part. . .to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters. . .so the task of naming & describing is an essential one.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“Just a reminder last year on Thanksgiving that Natives were being tortured with dogs, illegal scare tactics, being run over by angry white ppl all to protect our water and this year on Thanksgiving they are now cleaning up 200,000 gallon oil spill on a South Dakota reservation.”— lilnativeboy, twitter.com
“I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.”— Ed Begley Junior, goodreads.com