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It has never been man’s gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.

— Wallace Stegner

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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

All the Little Live Things (1967)

If the national park idea is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.

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