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What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them

What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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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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