Brooks Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower…

— Ellsworth Huntington

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

“Back then I took up flying with the sense of coming to something I had been meant to do all my life. Many people…

— Peter Heller

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the…

— Andrew H Malcolm

For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest…

— Benton MacKaye

“In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and…

— Urantia Foundation

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

— John Ruskin

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless…

— Aldo Leopold

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

— Ellsworth Huntington

“Custer wrote, “I often think I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people adhered to the free open plains…

— Nathaniel Philbrick