Deep sadness Quote by Peter Matthiessen

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

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back…

— Harvey Broome

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

— Roderick Nash

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 love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods…

— Chelsea Cain

“In a world in which everything bears the indelible impress of Man, it is refreshing to escape from time to time from this wall-to-wall…

— Terry Eagleton

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it…

— Robert Bunsen

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no…

— Betty White

But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place,…

— Geraldine Brooks

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness,

— Howard Zahniser

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

— John Muir