The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“I do not envy those whose introduction to nature was lush meadows, lakes, and swamps where life abounds. The desert hills of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
