Harvey Broome Quotes About Wilderness

• Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.


  Harvey Broome

  America, Wilderness, Capacity

• Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to the challenges of the untrammeled wilderness.

  Harvey Broome

  America, Optimism, Challenges

• These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.

  Harvey Broome

  Islands, Years, Age

• Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

  Harvey Broome

  War, Rivers, America

• If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

  Harvey Broome

  Forever, World, Wilderness

• The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered.... Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip to living-each has an unsurpassed lilt which bursts from the deepest wellsprings of life. These are the realities found in the wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains.

  Harvey Broome

  Reality, Giving, Quality

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