Nature Quote by Michael Pollan

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

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has…

— Aldo Leopold

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 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

We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one…

— Howard Zahniser

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

— David Wallace

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

— Octavian Paler

“The trouble with wilderness is that it quietly expresses and reproduces the very values its devotees seek to reject. The flight from history that…

— William Cronon

“Nature is not what you might call predictable. And it’s not forgiving. It doesn’t care about us. The lightning is gonna go where it…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

— Edward Abbey

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

— Harvey Broome

By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely…

— William Cronon