Birchbark Nature and Travel Photography

"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the
remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin
forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases;
if we drive the remaining wild species into zoos or extinction; if we
pollute the last clean air and dirty the last clean streams and push
our paved roads through the last of the silence.....

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never
do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of
reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, part of the
geography of hope."

—Wallace Stegner, 1960