“At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks.”
Ernest Thompson Seton on Wilderness Skills
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Theodore Roosevelt on the Value of Natural History
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“While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.”
John Muir on the Wilderness Experience
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“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Park ranger reflects on 40 years in Yellowstone
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This past weekend, Harlan Kredit celebrated his 40th season as a summer park ranger in Yellowstone National Park. Here are some of Kredit’s reflections on working in Yellowstone over the last four decades.
— Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Jedediah Smith on His Inspiration
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“I wanted to be the first to view a country on which the eyes of a white man had never gazed and to follow the course of rivers that run through a new land.”