Spine of the Continent Quotes

“To Michael Soule's three C's-cores, carnivores, and corridors-Foreman added "three W's: wilderness, wildways, and my favorite word in the English language, wildeor, which is Middle English and means `self-willed animal.' The ancient people who saw animals as self-willed and the land as self-willed had respect for the earth.”
― Mary Ellen Hannibal, The Spine of the Continent: The Race to Save America's Last, Best Wilderness

“Cattle grazing on public lands is heavily subsidized by the federal government, so yes, all of us taxpayers are helping to pay for tremendous environmental degradation.”
― Mary Ellen Hannibal, The Spine of the Continent: The Race to Save America's Last, Best Wilderness