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"When we strive to pass wilderness legislation, what we are really engaged in is democracy at work."
- Bart Koehler
Read an important message about patriotism and the purpose of wilderness from our friends at the Wilderness Support Center in Colorado.
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Perspectives on Wilderness : Mindy Cox
I fell in love with wilderness as a child thanks to my dad, a mycologist, whom I accompanied on many a mushroom-hunting hike from drizzly New England woods to windswept Hawaiian ridgelines. In the ensuing years, self-educated on a steady diet of Ed Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold and others, I came to see wilderness not as a luxury, or something to be reserved for a once-a-year vacation, or some mysterious other apart from “real life” — but as a necessity as sure as water and air are necessities (to paraphrase the venerable words of Mr. Abbey).
Wilderness is magnificent and daunting, thrilling and humbling, enticing and challenging. Wilderness — and the natural world contained within it — is endlessly fascinating. Wilderness is an essential part of being human. Wilderness by its very existence makes us the best we can be.
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