15 quotes
Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.
The Journey Home (1977)
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
The Journey Home (1977)
The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
The Journey Home (1977)
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
The Journey Home (1977)
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key.
The Journey Home (1977)
To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
The Journey Home (1977)
His logic may be airtight but his argument, far from revealing the delusions of living experience, only exposes the limitations of logic.
The Journey Home (1977)
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
The Journey Home (1977)
Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.
The Journey Home (1977)
Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
The Journey Home (1977)
One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever — and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.
The Journey Home (1977)
Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.
The Journey Home (1977)
"The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know."
The Journey Home (1977)
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself — not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
The Journey Home (1977)
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.
The Journey Home (1977)