“Our opportunity,” Howard Zahniser wrote in 1960, “is indeed perishable – and opportunity to preserve a true living wilderness. We are in danger of doing what we always have done, of continuing to use the wilderness as raw material out of which to fashion a culture that will seem, in our constantly more civilization-conditioned image, to be a ‘better’ world, but one with less and less of its wilderness…."

Harvey, Mark, ed. “The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser.” University of Washington Press, 2014.