Posts By: Ford Church

"I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." -Steve McQueen

"A person who points out what is wrong renders only half a service unless he can point out what is right." -Unknown

"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way man thinks." -Gregory Bateson

"If a Koyukon Indian wrote a book about bears, maybe half the volume would be the rules of keeping yourself in a state of respect toward the animal." -Richard Nelson, Alaskan Anthropologist

"Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to.  Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.  Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" -Aldo… Read more »

"What is the good of having a nice house without having a decent planet to put it on?" -Thoreau

"Each time a man stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls… Read more »