Areas Quote by Howard Zahniser

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

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

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

— Octavian Paler

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the…

— Howard Zahniser

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

— Edward Abbey

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls...

— John Muir

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial…

— Benton MacKaye

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

— Cotton Mather

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A…

— Edward Abbey