National Wilderness Preservation

Famous quotes containing the words national, wilderness and/or preservation:

“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)

“These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)