Defenders Quote by Edward Abbey

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

— Edward Abbey

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 is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable…

— Aldo Leopold

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Judi Bari

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

— Octavian Paler

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

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

Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise…

— Sigurd F. Olson

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for…

— Michael Pollan