Consequence Quote by Aldo Leopold

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

— Aldo Leopold

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back…

— Harvey Broome

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them…

— Aldo Leopold

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

— Harvey Broome

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has…

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Wallace Stegner

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

— Edward Abbey

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened…

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources…

— Clinton Presba Anderson

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A…

— Edward Abbey

“The whole industrial strength of the United States, should it be directed toward war-making, would constitute power never dreamed of before in the history…

— A.J. Baime