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~ The preservation of a few samples of undeveloped territory is one of the most clamant issues before us today. Just a few more years of hesitation and the only trace of that wilderness which has exerted such a fundamental influence in molding American character will lie in the musty pages of pioneer books ... To avoid this catastrophe demands immediate action. ~

Bob Marshall

~ I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show travelers where other minds have been, or at best smoke signals to call attention... One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cart load of books. ~

John Muir†

~ 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 clean air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. ~

Wallace Stegner

~ We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and intruded depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ~

John Hope Franklin

~ I love everything thats old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. ~

Oliver Goldsmith

~ Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. ~

Sara Paretsky

~ Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. ~

Bell Hooks

~ I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. ~

Confucius

~ I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. ~

Gunther Schuller

~ We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. ~

Dick Gregory

~ The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. ~

Andy Rooney

~ Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. ~

Lawrence Clark Powell

~ If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. ~

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

~ England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. ~

Victor Hugo

~ You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~

Saint Bernard

~ Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual. ~

Dennis Prager

~ There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ~

Elizabeth Moon

~ The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. ~

Nicolas Chamfort

~ If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. ~

Raymond Chandler

~ In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. ~

Leo Rosten

~ One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s. ~

William Hazlitt

~ The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ~

William Dean Howells

~ There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. ~

Walt Disney

~ In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage. ~

Bill Cosby

~ The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~

Ross McDonald

~ I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. ~

Thomas Macaulay

~ It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. ~

Carolyn Wells

~ Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ~

Joseph Addison

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