No Right Way Is Easy In This

No Dogma Taught By The Present Civilization Seems To Form So Insuperable An Obstacle In A Way Of A Right Understanding Of The Relations Which Culture Sustains As To Wilderness, As That Which Declares That The World Was Made Especially For The Uses Of Men. Every Animal, Plant, And Crystal Controverts It In The Plainest Terms. Yet It Is Taught From Century To Century As Something Ever New And Precious, And In The Resulting Darkness The Enormous Conceit Is Allowed To Go Unchallenged.

Earth Has No Sorrow That Earth Can Not Heal.

Of All The Paths You Take In Life, Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Dirt.

Man And Other Civilized Animals Are The Only Creatures That Ever Become Dirty.

Climb The Mountains And Get Their Good Tidings.