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?
[Also known as:]I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
Source:(Oxford University Press, ed. 1970), Page 148
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