David Brower

"We are not visiting the earth; we are living in it, and that distinction changes everything."

"The wildest thing left is our imagination about what we might become."

"Every wilderness area is a question: What kind of future do we want?"

"The camera can make the timeless temporal and the temporary eternal."

"We protect the environment not for nature's sake but for our own."

"The greatest conservation effort is making people care about what they have never seen."

"In fighting for the wilderness, I have been fighting for truth."

"The photograph is a confession of what the photographer believes matters."

"We cannot outsmart nature; we can only align ourselves with it."

"The wilderness is not a place we go to; it is a part of ourselves we recover there."

"Every preserved landscape is a gift to a future we will not see."

"The most important discovery is not what we find but what we learn to value."

"Conservation is ultimately about love—love for the earth and those who will inherit it."