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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone — who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness. – Hubert Humphrey

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The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. – Hubert Humphrey

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When we parcel heaven and fence eternity, when the wildness is all tamed and torn, dont let me live to see. – Connie Dover

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In wildness is the preservation of the world. – Henry David Thoreau

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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau

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Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. – Edward Abbey

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