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Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

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The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible ...more

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Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of ...more

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No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them...more

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We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the im...more