"Without any remaining wilderness we are committed wholly, without chance for even momentary reflection and rest, to a headlong drive into our technological termite-life. The wilderness idea is an intangible and spiritual resource, absolutely essential to the very philosophy and character of the American people. Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed…One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world." - Wallace Stegner, author of the famous 1961 Wilderness Letter which directly influenced Congress's Wilderness Act of 1964.
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