"Two-dimensional Rand McNally travelers who see a region as having borders will likely move in only one locality at a time, but travelers who perceive a place as part of a deep landscape in slow rotation at the center of a sphere and radiating infinite lines in an indefinite number of directions will move in several regions at once"--William Least Heat-Moon. Prairy Erth: A Deep Map. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
"With every great idea comes a gaggle of mediocre minds who oppose it. It was with the creation of virtually every national park in the United States, from Yellowstone to Yosemite, from Kobuk Valley to the Everglades."--Kim Heacox. A Poet, A Painter, and the Lonesome Triangle. Audubon, May 1990.
"If Carlyle was correct in saying that all history is forged by the deeds of great men, then Roosevelt earned his place in the American pantheon by simply refusing to let commercial interests desecrate the Grand Canyon. There is something about the Grand Canyon's power that makes one consider immortality. It was grander than all the music Roosevelt had heard; it was finer than all the Transcendental poetry he had read. If Roosevelt had done nothing else as president, his advocacy on behalf of observing the canyon might well have put him in the top ranks of American presidents."--Douglas Brinkley. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. Harper Perennial, 2009.
"To Roosevelt, the main thrust of American history was western expansionism...Of course, national politics was full of drum-beating American expansionists, imperialists, and proponents of manifest destiny. What was unique about President Roosevelt was his righteous insistence that Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, the redwoods, Mount Olympus, the Painted Desert, and so on were the rightful trophies of expansionism. As a conquering conservationist-preservationist he wanted them all saved." --Douglas Brinkley. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. Harper Perennial, 2009.
"Although it is well accepted that Earth consists of many different ecosystems, it is less well understood that Earth itself is an ecosystem, dependent on interacting species and consisting of finite resources...Loss of biodiversity, environmental degradation, and conflict over resources among the dominant species are typical signs that a biological system is nearing a state change, which could range from collapse of the dominant species, to development of alternative biological communities, to collapse of the entire system." --ECOSYSTEM EARTH. Introduction to Special Section. Sacha Vignieri and Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink. Science 356:258-259 (21 April 2017).
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