Quote by Lee H. Whittlesey

“To develop a national park is to not have one.”

— Lee H. Whittlesey

“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.”

— John Muir

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A”

— Patrick Carman

“If the park can be reduced to a single cultural indicator, it is that of optimism. Contained within the evolution of the park idea…

— Karen R. Jones & John Wills

“Re: Central Park But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed.”

— Rafael Yglesias

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.”

— Dan Riskin

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

— Robert Smithson

“wild are, in practice,”

— Yann Martel

“You may wish to capture a wild thing as you covet their unbreakable spirit, but as much as you may wish to tame a…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance; within which I…

— Sara Baume