Concern Quote by Michael Pollan

“For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists.... The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those…

— David Baron

“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled…

— Emma Marris

Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of…

— Simon Schama

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that…

— Edward Abbey

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

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

— Douglas Tompkins

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

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right…

— Margaret Murie

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

— Lois Crisler

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 found myself questioning many assumptions about 'nature' and 'wilderness' that were common in conservation at the time. Were all introduced species really bad?…

— Emma Marris