Absence Quote by Nick Rahall

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

— Octavian Paler

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

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

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always…

— David Douglas

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts…

— Gary Snyder

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

— Lois Crisler

It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations…

— Jonathan Raban

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 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 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 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

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