Wilderness and the American Mind Quotes

“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”
― Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION

“The land is like the garden of Eden before them,” wrote the author of Joel, “but after them a desolate wilderness.”
― Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind