Answers Quote by Wallace Stegner

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go…

— Edward Abbey

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

— John Muir

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

— Roderick Nash

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

— George Aiken

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

— Octavian Paler

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

— Cotton Mather

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save…

— Bill Mollison

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

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

— David Wallace

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

— Everett Ruess

“I believe we need wilderness in order to be more complete human beings, to not be fearful of the animals that we are, an…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

— John Muir