Bruce Babbitt

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.”

“Cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.”

“More and more, we're finding that in order to be a conservationist, you have to be a negotiator.”

“We need a new ethic of place, one that has a reverence for local landscape, history, and culture.”

“Where is it written that we must commit our successors to an impoverished planet?”