Areas Quote by Jonathan Raban

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

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 resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable…

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Roderick Nash

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

— David R. Brower

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that…

— Bill McKibben

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

— Nick Rahall

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is…

— Ansel Adams

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

— Octavian Paler

I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home.…

— Cheryl Strayed

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared…

— Jay Griffiths