America Quote by Walt Whitman

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

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

— Harvey Broome

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

— Thomas Carlyle

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

— Al Gore

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

When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to…

— Parker J. Palmer

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

— Eugene McCarthy

Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the power relations…

— Henry Giroux

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

— Jon Voight

Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.

— George W. Bush