1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Howard Zahniser

Howard Zahniser Quotes

Howard Clinton Zahniser was an American environmental activist. For nearly 20 years, he helped lead The Wilderness Society as executive secretary, executive director, and editor of The Living Wilderness, from 1945 to 1964. Zahniser is noted for being the primary author of the Wilderness Act of 1964. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. February 1906 – 5. May 1964
Howard Zahniser photo
Howard Zahniser: 3   quotes 0   likes

Famous Howard Zahniser Quotes

“The fact is that it is the land that has made us all Americans, and the moral is that it is the land which must be preserved to save our Americanism. Soil erosion, forest exploitation, and wildlife destruction are more insidious anti-American activities than Communism, Fascism, or foreign propagandizing.”

Howard Zahniser

"Indoors and Out", Nature Magazine number 33 (May 1940) p. 255, quoted in Mark Harvey, Wilderness Forever (2005) p. 45

“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a member of the natural community, a wanderer who visits but does not remain and whose travels leave only trails.”

Howard Zahniser

From an early draft of the Wilderness Act (S. 1176, submitted to the Senate 11 February 1957, as reprinted in The Living Wilderness volume 21, number 59, Winter-Spring 1956-57, p. 26-36)

“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

Howard Zahniser

The Wilderness Act http://www.wilderness.net/nwps/legisact (Public Law 88-577; 16 USC 1131-1136; approved 3 September 1964)

Similar authors

Edward Abbey photo
Edward Abbey 146
American author and essayist
Fidel Castro photo
Fidel Castro 77
former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President…
Toni Morrison photo
Toni Morrison 184
American writer
Albert A. Michelson photo
Albert A. Michelson 5
American physicist
Tennessee Williams photo
Tennessee Williams 139
American playwright
Robert Fulghum photo
Robert Fulghum 82
American writer
Robert Frost photo
Robert Frost 265
American poet
Neale Donald Walsch photo
Neale Donald Walsch 69
American writer
M. Scott Peck photo
M. Scott Peck 26
American psychiatrist
Martin Lewis Perl photo
Martin Lewis Perl 9
American scientist