(Abraham Lincoln)
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
(Merle Shain)
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
(Anonymous)
Freedom of the wilderness means many this to different people. If you really want to enjoy it, you must recognize your responsibilities as adult humans living in a world with others. Freedom gives no one license to change a heritage that belongs to the ages.
(Sigurd F. Olson)
For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part by fitting our civilization to the mountain.
(Benton Mackaye)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they cannot find them, make them.
(George Bernard Shaw)
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
(Wilderness Act Of 1964)
Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to ?progress. '
(Stewart Udall)