Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
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“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.”
"Shadows from the Big Woods", p. 223
The Journey Home (1977)