Quotes about Wilderness
Something what was unthinkable 10 years ago is become reality. We Europeans finally agree on the definition and importance of Wilderness in Europe, we are working on a European Wilderness Network and we launched a research concept with the aim to prove that Wilderness is important for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, climate change and so likely also for us people!
Please also read: Enlargement of the Wilderness in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
However the power of wilderness is first of all the ability to touch the hearts of people… in the following quotes, people are telling us how they feel about wilderness.
The most famous quotes are coming from North American wilderness pioneers but I would like to offer you a few also from Europeans. So take a seat, glass of wine and relax. Unleash your mind. Close your eyes and starts to think deeply when your friend is reading the following quotes. Try to understand and feel what do these individuals try to put to this short expressions. Happy reading…
Quotes about Wilderness:
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in
The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask
We want to show Europeans that wilderness is not only a domain of Alaska, but it is still present inside Europe, and that it deserves our attention, respect and protection
Wilderness in the Kalkalpen National Park creates diversity!
It is sometimes forgotten, that there remains – even if only in small fragments covering altogether no more than about 1% of our territory – small, yet important, areas of what can be called “virgin”, “natural”, “wild” or “wilderness” areas.
We cannot know what to do unless we know what mother nature do when we do nothing…
Tell us your quote!
Try here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/wilderness…
Do you have a source for the Aldo Leopold quote: “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness”? I’ve been trying to find where he said this, but I have only found this variation from A Sand County Almanac: “I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young it.”
Thanks,