America Quote by Harvey Broome

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back…

— Harvey Broome

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

— Harvey Broome

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

— Stephen Harper

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

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them…

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

— David Wallace

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

— Roderick Nash

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

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

— Wallace Stegner