Bison Quote by Edward Abbey

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

— David R. Brower

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

— Lois Crisler

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

— David R. Brower

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

— Octavian Paler

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

— Susan Orlean

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

— Nick Rahall

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that…

— Bill McKibben

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

It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of…

— David Longstreth

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature…

— Michael J. Fox