National Wilderness Preservation

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

    The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    Thou wilt be a wilderness again,
    Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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