Wilderness
Overview
 
Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment
Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....

 on Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...

 that has not been significantly modified by human
Human
Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

 activity. It may also be defined as: "The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet—those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with roads, pipelines or other industrial infrastructure." Wilderness areas can be found in preserves, estates, farms, conservation preserves, ranches, National Forests, National Parks and even in urban areas along rivers, gulches or otherwise undeveloped areas.
Quotations

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Walt Disney

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Charles Lindbergh

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Mark Udall

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Stewart L. Udall

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Jim Fowler

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Edward Abbey

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone|Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Hubert Humphrey

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

John Hope Franklin

 
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