When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying desperately to get there.
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.
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.
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy.
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
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