"Many of the attributes most distinctive of America and Americans are the impress of the wilderness. … Shall we now exterminate this thing that made us Americans?"
— Wilderness

January 1, 1970

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Aldo Leopold, "Wilderness as a Form of Land Use", 1925. Republished in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, edited by Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott, 1991, pp. 137-138.