"In Wildness is the preservation of the World. . . . The story 

 of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable." 

 — Henry D. Thoreau. 



"The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to 

 see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning 

 to find out that going to the mountains is going home ; that wildness is a 

 necessity ; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as 

 fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. Awaken- 

 ing from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and the deadly 

 apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their 

 own little ongoings with those of Nature, and to get rid of rust and dis- 

 ease." — John Muir. 



