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“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”

Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

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The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

This volume gathers selected writings from Joseph Wood Krutch, a noted American naturalist and literary critic. The essays focus on his observations of wildlife, landscapes, and the changing seasons, often blending scientific curiosity with philosophical contemplation. Krutch's prose emphasizes the value of direct experience with nature and critiques modern society's detachment from the environment. The collection draws from his works published primarily in the mid-20th century, reflecting his perspective on conservation and the human relationship with the natural world. more

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Joseph Wood Krutch

Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer known for his literary criticism and nature writing. His works covered a wide range of subjects, including literature, philosophy, and nature. Born on November 25, 1893, he passed away on May 22, 1970. more

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Book:Aldo Leopold's Southwest

Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest

“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.”

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Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?”

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Book:Aldo Leopold's Southwest

Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest

“The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.”

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“Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.”

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Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.”

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Author:Olaus Murie

“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.”

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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.”

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“Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.”

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“Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth. It embodies the hopes and dreams of those who have gone before, including the spirit world; it is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.”

Source: Reflections from the North Country