The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA), is a 1,090,000-acre (4,400 km2) wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota (USA) under the administration of the U.S. Forest Service. The BWCAW is renowned as a destination for both canoeing and fishing on its many lakes and is the most visited wilderness in the United States.
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“No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.”
—Charles Stewart Parnell (18461891)
“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)
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—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 11:7-9.
Jesus speaking about John the Baptist.