Abiding Quote by Doug Peacock

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

— Luther Standing Bear

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“...I found myself questioning many assumptions about 'nature' and 'wilderness' that were common in conservation at the time. Were all introduced species really bad?…

— Emma Marris

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further…

— Henry Adams

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

— Henry David Thoreau

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting,…

— Olaus Murie

Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To…

— Luther Standing Bear

The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the…

— Vandana Shiva

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard…

— John Muir

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was…

— Aldo Leopold

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

— Louise Erdrich

When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist…

— Vandana Shiva