Bits Quote by Aldo Leopold

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

I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that…

— Sigurd F. Olson

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

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save…

— Bill Mollison

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that…

— Wallace Stegner

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

One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd,…

— Frank Church

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 our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Harvey Broome