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

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with lov...more

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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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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern wh...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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To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

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The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused wi...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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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

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I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.