A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness…

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

— Edward Abbey

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go…

— Edward Abbey

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror,…

— Edward Abbey

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need…

— Wendell Berry

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need…

— Alain de Botton

We will help those who are genuinely homeless and there is a huge amount of investment and resources dedicated to helping those who are…

— Suella Braverman

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as…

— Wallace Stegner

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved —…

— Wallace Stegner

“As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how…

— Azadeh Moaveni

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used…

— Max Anders

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

— Michael Pollan

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for…

— Tim Cahill

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

— Charles Lindbergh

“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled…

— Emma Marris