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We would like to hear your thoughts on what wilderness is. Many years ago Jim described wilderness to Ken Bacon of the Wall Street Journal as "a place where things work like they're supposed to work". A wilderness is a place of natural beauty, a place to reconnect with the Earth and ourselves, a home for wildlife, and sacred ground for healing and nurturing many of us. It is many different things to many different people.
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"If future
generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we
must leave them something more than the miracles of our technology. We
must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not
just after we got through with it."
-- President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon signing The Wilderness Act of 1964
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| What does wilderness mean to you? What does it do for you? How does it make you feel? What would you do without it? Please share your thoughts and feelings here. See what others have said, too. |
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How Other Visitors Have Described Wilderness
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"All I can say right now is it brings me to my knees.... and it makes me know all that is right in the world."
--- Sharon Negri
Bainbridge Island, WA
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"I think the wilderness is a magical beauty...there are plants and animals a
lot of us have never seen ...it is the most amazing things in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
---Desiree, Age 9
Ashville, NC |
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"Wilderness is a kind of sanctuary where the spirit is set free to roam in a greater concept of time and space, pure and pristine."
--- Pauline Freed
Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
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"Wilderness is a moment,a space in time where you are free to Be.It's a longing for what we have lost within ourselves. The outer expression of that longing shows through in all the beauty, the quiet;the waning sunlight that illuminates a patch of moss on a rock, or the haunting benediction of a robin in evening.They say that the world was sung into being by Love. To that, I say, let us Love the wilderness inside ourselves,
so that the inner reflects the outer."
--- Susan Kilian
Sioux Falls, SD
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"... a place we can reconnect with ourselves, place for deep inner reflection as the vast wilderness is peaceful and quiet... only intercepted with gust of wind, chirping of birds and sounds of nature...wilderness is where we originate from... we should go back to it as often as we can... take time to ponder, to grasp, to awe at what wilderness has to offer... take time to take a step into the wilderness to discovernmore about yourself..."
---Christina Cheah
Singapore, Singapore
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"The wilderness to me, is my classroom. I teach in the wilderness. I have taught more with the rocks, water and trees than any book could have taught my students. I brag to others how delightful my classroom is. I have the finest wooden floors and walls than any money could buy. I have a choir with beautiful voices that sing 24/7. And the ceiling in my class, well there is none, for the sky is the limit to my students."
--- Gregory Ritter
Promised Land, PA
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"Wilderness puts me in my place. I recognize something much bigger and grander than myself. It says to me, "I don't need you, you need me". When I see a wild flower or bee I say to my self; Solomon in all his wisdom and science with all its wonderful knowledge could not create one of these."
--- Joseph Moran
Toledo, Ohio
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"Being in the wilderness in any form, the forest, the ocean or any other example is to be connected with the heartbeat of life. Only that of nature touches all the senses in such a simple yet complex way. The solitude and the connection with something we all know,
outside of ourselves. I feel that connection most when I am in the wilderness. Alone, or sharing the space with someone. Its being lost in the music and painting of GOD."
---Becky Fermato
Northampton, PA
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