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“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.”

“Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.”

Men May Voice Hours Animal Silence Darkness Broken Neighborhood Wilderness Now And Then Deer Do Not Fear Wilder Coyotes

Book:Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

Source: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.”

Men World Way Made Use Seems Earth Form Culture Understanding Term Nature Animal Darkness Century Taught Civilization Relation Plant Obstacles Enormous Wilderness Dogma Crystals Conceit Wildness

Author:John Muir

“It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.”

Way Firsts Humans Faces Born Animal Millions Forests Wilderness Stations Infancy Acres Sierra

Book:Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals

Source: Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals

“The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.”

Inspiration Animal Cities Sun Brother Moon Mountain Males Rounds Wilderness Goddess Twins Domain Apollo Flocks Artemis Counterparts Untamed Twin Brother

Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen

“Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.”

God Use Animal Walking Sticks Stupidity Wilderness Bans Hiker Walking Sticks

Author:Dave Barry

“When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.”

Ifs Humans Animal Effort Areas Species Disappear Preserves Wilderness

Author:Matthew Fox

“Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.”

Humans Spirit Lost Waiting Animal Sadness Century Skills Plant Endure Wilderness Gaps Human Spirit Plants And Animals

Author:David Ehrenfeld

“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."”

People Knows Home Animal Numbers Greater Land Dangerous Grew Grew Up Advantage Towns Miles Wilderness Representation Attacking Acres Wild Animal Minnesota Unsafe Depiction

Author:Cheryl Strayed