Human beings Quote by John Muir

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

— Edward Abbey

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

— Octavian Paler

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

— Roderick Nash

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

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his…

— Clyde Butcher

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values…

— Howard Zahniser