Environment Quote by Emma Marris

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

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

— Luther Standing Bear

“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

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 not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go…

— John Muir

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

The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to…

— Doug Peacock

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

“Having grown up in those woods, Walker knew that for many people, the wilderness did not represent an otherworldly sanctum of ‘biodiversity,’ as it…

— Robert Moor

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

— Stewart Udall

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

“The trouble with wilderness is that it quietly expresses and reproduces the very values its devotees seek to reject. The flight from history that…

— William Cronon