“We need to honor the Other within and the Other next door as much as we do the exotic Other that lives far away- a lesson that applies as much to people as it does  to (other) natural things” (Cronon 89).

“The removal of Indians to create an “uninhabited wilderness”- uninhabited as never before in the human history of the place- remind us just how invented, just how constructed, the American wilderness really is” (Cronon 79).

“The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends” (Thoreau 188).