Adventure Quote by Edward Abbey

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

— Edward Abbey

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

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

— Octavian Paler

Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship,…

— Sigurd F. Olson

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

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

— Cotton Mather

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

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

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

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

— Edward Abbey

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau