Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for th…

- Roderick Nash

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

- Roderick Nash

Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould th…

- Roderick Nash

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

- Roderick Nash

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is…

- Roderick Nash

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

- Roderick Nash