"The wilderness IDEA is a resource itself. Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed . . . The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health . . . It is important to us simply because it is there - important, that is, simply as idea . . . It can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."
Wallace Stegner
Photo: Looking down from Hurricane Pass on Alaska Basin and teal-colored Sunset Lake on July 6th, 2012. The pass is in Grand Teton National Park; the basin is in Jedediah Smith Wilderness. Both are in Wyoming. The wildflowers are Western Yellow Paintbrush and Alpine Sweetvetch.
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