Decent Quote by Aldo Leopold

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions,…

— Nick Rahall

Conservation must become before recreation.

— Prince Charles

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found…

— Edward Abbey

I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one…

— Henry David Thoreau

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

— George Aiken

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

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

— Edward Abbey

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

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

— Nick Rahall

For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest…

— Benton MacKaye

The more people share woodland, absorb it and regard it as part of their personal heritage and culture, the richer our society will be.…

— Monty Don

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