Challenges Quote by Wallace Stegner

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

Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise…

— Sigurd F. Olson

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

By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values…

— Howard Zahniser

We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror,…

— Edward Abbey

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

— Cotton Mather

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

— Octavian Paler

What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist…

— Stephanie Mills

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

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

— David Wallace

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A…

— Edward Abbey