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Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

— Harvey Broome

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that…

— Wallace Stegner

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

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save…

— Bill Mollison

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that…

— Wallace Stegner

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

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 so much a place, but a feeling about one.

— Roderick Nash

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 very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Stewart Udall