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In a world which sometimes seems to consist entirely of dilemmas we also are creating one. If too many of us want to see the unspoiled natural areas, we will spoil them.
Joseph Wood Krutch The Forgotten Peninsula -
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.
Sigurd Olson -
Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.
Terry Tempest Williams -
Sunset on Granite Creek, Gros Ventre Wilderness, Aug 2002
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Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas, June 2006
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Black Hills of South Dakota, July 2002
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Idaho, July 2005
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Across the road from my cabin was a huge clear-cut—hundreds of acres of massive spruce stumps interspersed with tiny Douglas firs—products of what they call “Reforestation,” which I guess makes the spindly firs en masse a “Reforest,” which makes an individual spindly fir a “Refir,” which means you could say that Weyerhauser, who owns the joint, has Refir Madness, since they think that sawing down 200-foot-tall spruces and replacing them with puling 2-foot Refirs is no different from farming beans or corn or alfalfa. They even call the towering spires they wipe from the Earth’s face forever a “crop”—as if they’d planted the virgin forest! But I’m just a fisherman and may be missing some deeper significance in their nomenclature and stranger treatment of primordial trees.
David James Duncan -
They’re going to want to run ahead.
Let them run ahead.
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One of my favorite sights: dirty kids reading books outside.
Big Bend NP, TX, June 2006
I am a dad, first and foremost. In order to provide for my incredible wife and 4 amazing kids, I work as an itinerant wildlife biologist. I take them along whenever possible.
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