Emptiness Quote by Octavian Paler

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls...

— John Muir

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

— Cotton Mather

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

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Nick Rahall

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 without wildlife is just scenery.

— Lois Crisler

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 is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

— Edward Abbey