"The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders."

"He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness."

"I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast…"

"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for t…"

"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone — who, when he could see the smoke from anothe…"

"If I had my way about national parks, I would create one without a road in it. I would have it impenetrable forever t…"

"Listening in wild places, we are audience to conversations in a language not our own."

"Many of the attributes most distinctive of America and Americans are the impress of the wilderness. … Shall we now ex…"

"If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely…"

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