We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience.... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.

Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser (ed. North Country Books Incorporated, 1992) - ISBN: 9780932052766