Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.