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“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.”
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“The land is like the garden of Eden before them,” wrote the author of Joel, “but after them a desolate wilderness.”
― Wilderness and the American Mind
― Wilderness and the American Mind
“The greatest happiness possible to a man ... is to become civilized, to know the pageant of the past, to love the beautiful, to have just ideas of values and proportions, and then retaining his animal spirits and appetites, to live in a wilderness, - J. Frank Dobie”
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
