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“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

thanks to fuckyeahhiking:

“Where man himself is a visitor who does not remain…”

I loved this.

(Source: wethetrees, via themattsmith)