“Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.” PeopleIfsWellsEnoughCharacterSpiritualForceWiseInfluencePreservesWildernessContinentsReservesMolding Author:Sigurd F. Olson
“Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.” PeopleMeanAmericaSpiritualModernPressureWildernessSerenityModern LifeAntidoteEquilibrium Author:Sigurd F. Olson
“I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a hard core of wilderness need in everyone, a core that makes its spiritual values a basic human necessity. There is no hiding it....Unless we can preserve places where the endless spiritual needs of man can be fulfilled and nourished, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.” PeopleMenNeedsHumansHardSpiritualValuesCultureSeeingLifetimeCoreEndlessPreservesRegionsWildernessHidingPrimitiveFulfilledHard CoreSpiritual Values Author:Sigurd F. Olson
“In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.” PeopleGivingSoundSilenceMusicMysteryCreationListeningSolitudeQuietEternalHearingNoiseWildernessHeritageSurroundingsSacredness Author:Sigurd F. Olson
