Occupation: Writer Birth: July 15, 1902 Death: March 8, 1968
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its riv….
The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered.... Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-ea….
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America..
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into ….
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and ela….
And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes. Everything ed….
Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a subst….
If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was..