Assuming Quote by Aldo Leopold

Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must…

— 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

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

— Cotton Mather

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

— Edward Abbey

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

“Our ignorance of the teeming wilderness that is the soil (even the act of regarding it as a wilderness) is no impediment to nurturing…

— Michael Pollan

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

— Lois Crisler

“This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of…

— Craig Childs

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

“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

By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values…

— Howard Zahniser