Areas Quote by Jay Griffiths

It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations…

— Jonathan Raban

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

— Nick Rahall

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

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

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 a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two…

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Octavian Paler

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

— Rene Dubos

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

— Luther Standing Bear

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

— Lois Crisler

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

— Beryl Markham

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

— Roderick Nash