“In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others”

“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”

“In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste. Trees are extravagant. Tree trunks are standing monuments to futile competition - futile if we think in terms of a planed economy. But the natural economy is not planned. Individual plants compete with other plants, of the same and other species, and the result is that they grow taller and taller, far taller than any planner would recommend.”

“Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.”

“Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”

“It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters.”