Facts Quote by Benton MacKaye

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go…

— John Muir

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

— Octavian Paler

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two…

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to…

— Bob Brown

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

— Cotton Mather

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

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

— John Muir

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always…

— David Douglas

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

“To be in touch with wilderness is to have stepped past the proud cattle of the field and wandered far from the twinkles of…

— Martin Shaw

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

— Edward Abbey

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau