Benefits Quote by Howard Zahniser

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who…

— Aldo Leopold

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

“To be in touch with wilderness is to have stepped past the proud cattle of the field and wandered far from the twinkles of…

— Martin Shaw

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

— Edward Abbey

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

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

— John Muir

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

— Octavian Paler

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always…

— David Douglas

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 necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.…

— John Muir

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

“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the…

— Edward Abbey