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 …

- Benton Mackaye

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and h…

- Benton Mackaye

There are three things: to walk, to see, and to see what you see.

- Benton Mackaye

My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded…

- Benton Mackaye

One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether o…

- Benton Mackaye

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a b…

- Benton Mackaye

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of th…

- Benton Mackaye

The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been consi…

- Benton Mackaye