The Appalachian Trail Quotes

“For it seems to me that neither the frontiers between the wild and the cultivated, nor those that lie between the past and the present, are so easily fixed. —Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory”
― Philip D'Anieri, The Appalachian Trail: A Biography

“Our job in the new exploration is nothing short of making a utopia of reconstruction—the remodeling of an unshapen and cacophonous environment into a humanized and well-ordered one. —Benton MacKaye”
― Philip D'Anieri, The Appalachian Trail: A Biography