Character Quote by Sigurd F. Olson

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as…

— Wallace Stegner

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them…

— Aldo Leopold

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved —…

— Wallace Stegner

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that…

— Sigurd F. Olson

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

— Edward Abbey

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Cotton Mather

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

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

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

— Octavian Paler

“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from…

— Rebecca Solnit