Wilderness Areas
There are four officially designated wilderness areas lying within Ocala National Forest that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
- Alexander Springs Wilderness
- Billies Bay Wilderness
- Juniper Prairie Wilderness
- Little Lake George Wilderness
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Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or areas:
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)