Sigurd F. Olson Quotes

Sigurd Ferdinand Olson was an American author, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario. He was known honorifically as the Bourgeois — a term the voyageurs of old used of their trusted leaders. Wikipedia

✵ 4. April 1899 – 13. January 1982

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Sigurd F. Olson Quotes

“A new adventure is coming up and I'm sure it will be a good one.”

Sigurd F. Olson

Last written words http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC/Olson/shack/shack03.htm

“Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”

Sigurd F. Olson

"We Need Wilderness," National Parks Magazine, January–March 1946

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