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?

p. 157-158. - A Sand County Almanac, 1949 - "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons"