Conditions Quote by Aldo Leopold

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial…

— Benton MacKaye

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts…

— Gary Snyder

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for…

— Michael Pollan

“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

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go…

— John Muir

It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities…

— William Kittredge

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was…

— Aldo Leopold

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

— Aldo Leopold

If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must…

— Arthur Carhart

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health…

— Richard Louv

By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely…

— William Cronon