Tag: wilderness
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Roosevelt on Solitude
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom. — Theodore Roosevelt
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Roosevelt on Wilderness
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel. — Theodore Roosevelt
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Standing Bear on Wilderness
Reading Time: 1 minuteWe did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was it ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and…
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Muir on Alaska
Reading Time: 1 minuteTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir