John C. Hawkes
"To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world."
John Muir
"If you are old, go by all means, but if you are young -- wait! The scenery of Alaska is much grander than anything else of the kind in the world. And it is not well to dull one's capacity for enjoyment by seeking the finest first."
Henry Gannett of the US Geological Survey in 1899
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike." - John Muir
Go now and then for fresh life. Go whether or not you have faith. Go up and away for life; be fleet! I know some will heed the warning. Most will not, so full of pagan slavery is the boasted freedom of the town, and those who need rest and clean snow and sky the most will be the last to move.
- John Muir, John of the Mountains, 1874
God's love is manifest in the landscape as in a face. - John Muir
A few snow crystals were shaken down from a black cloud towards midnight, but most of the day was one of deep peace, in which God's love was manifest as in a countenance. -John Muir
"It may be that the Alaskan Indians are doomed. Those who are fighting for the natives with all their hearts and souls cannot believe that this will be the end of all their efforts.
But if it be so, let at least the memorial of their names remain. When inhabited wilderness becomes an uninhabited wilderness, when the only people who ever make their homes in it are exterminated, when the placer gold is gone and the white men have gone also; let at least the native names of these great mountains remain to show that there once dwelt in the land, a simple hardy race who braved successfully the rigors of its climate and the inhospitality of their environment.....
and flourished.
-Hudson Stuck
The Ascent of Denali
"Slow down and enjoy life. Its not only the scenery you miss by going too fast, you'll also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
Eddie Cantor
"Keep close to nature's heart....and break away, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean"
John Muir
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines,
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore."
-Author Unknown
"Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?"
-Margaret Murie
"Wilderness is a resource which can shrink, but not grow...."
-Aldo Leopold
Conservationist
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