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You Can Never Do Merely One Thing. The Law Applies To Any Action That Changes Something In A Complex System. The Point Is That An Action Taken To Alleviate A Problem Will Trigger Several Effects, Some Of Which May Offset Or Even Negate The One Intended.

The Greatest Folly Is To Accept Expert Statements Uncritically. At The Very Least, We Should Always Seek Another Opinion.

Every Plausible Policy Must Be Followed By The Question 'and Then What?'

The Exquisite Sight, Sound, And Smell Of Wilderness Is Many Times More Powerful If It Is Earned Through Physical Achievement, If It Comes At The End Of A Long And Fatiguing Trip For Which Vigorous Good Health Is Necessary. Practically Speaking, This Means That No One Should Be Able To Enter A Wilderness By Mechanical Means.

Every Measured Thing Is Part Of A Web Of Variables More Richly Interconnected Than We Know.