Clearing Quote by Bill Mollison

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 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

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that…

— Edward Abbey

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

“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

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

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

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

— Judi Bari

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

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we…

— Gaylord Nelson

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in.…

— Matthew Fox