Civilization Quote by Benton MacKaye

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

— Octavian Paler

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

— David Wallace

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

— John Muir

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror,…

— Edward Abbey

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

Every one in this world has the potential to bring down the mountains. the only requisite is to make a start.

— Athar Azeem

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

— Cotton Mather

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right…

— Margaret Murie

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls...

— John Muir

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go…

— Edward Abbey

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

— Edward Abbey

A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing…

— Earl Hamner, Jr