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A Love Letter to Wilderness

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This love letter to wilderness celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Wilderness Act with stunning images and excerpts of poetry and words on wilderness from Edward Abbey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir and Wallace Stegner. In 50 years, the designated wilderness areas in the United States has grown from nine to 109 million acres, including national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges, and Bureau of Land Management lands. "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity..." ~John Muir
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Learn more about the 1964 Wilderness Act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System in the United States.
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Read the full text of Wallace Stegner's Wilderness Letter, which helped to pass the 1964 Wilderness Act.
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Do your mind, body and soul some good - spend time in nature.
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Reflections (27)

Robin
I love my Momma Gaia and don't want to see her harmed any more! I pray the destruction is halted sooner than later.
April
We cannot continue to abuse our planet or we will no longer have a peaceful place to go to as refuge from our work lives. Everything we do - from what we eat, to what we drive, to how live everyday of our existence- affects the environment.
JoAnn
The Wilds –the places man can only pass through that still remain as free as they are able, despite man's effects and yet still barely free of his hideous direct manipulation – are my only source of a true experience of purity, and freedom from the assault of the false, man-made culture that is eating us alive – all for the sake of money, which means absolutely NOTHING without life – if we let it.
ELSON JACKSON
it is interesting
Ann
"What we now call wilderness was once simply the world. Our ancestors evolved here. Our neural architecture formed in these places where wolves and bears and lions thrived, where life was hard and the air was clean. In our new,human-created world, we have many wonderful things...but without time back in the world we're from, we go insane. In wilderness. We're home." Aaron Teasdale, in Nov/Dec Sierra Club Magazine.
Donna D'Orio
The message of truth it delivers, that we cannot live without wilderness.
Lindy
I spontaneously began to breathe more deeply and then felt a relaxation come over my body and a sense of well-being. I felt a small smile arise and a tenderness in my chest.
BD
That wilderness exists as a protected wild place is a measure of peoples' and nations' abilities to care for all forms of life, to be stewards of this planet, and to protect and appreciate the mystifying natural beauty each nation has.
Debi
It took my breath away! The majestic mountains, the serenity. . .a gift we all should treasure. Thank you.
Margaret Coles
Our planet, in its true raw and uninterrupted state functions on the 528 hz. Which is the resonance of God/ Consciousness/ Nature; given to us as a gift to enjoy and be responsible for. Thank you for this, it made me gasp with joy.
jodi
WILDERNESS.... MOUNTAINS... GOING HOME
I just returned from 8 days of hiking in California...
Nature is my best friend..
Peg
This is beautiful. We have a responsibility

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