Please learn more about what you can do to Leave No Trace in Olympic's wilderness. The Act provides for the designation of wilderness areas, defines what wilderness is and provides direction for wilderness area management. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. I would not have every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth. Our lives need the relief of where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.
All good things are wild and free.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. In wildness is the preservation of the world. There is something in the very name of wilderness which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it. When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power go to the wilderness Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory The wilderness will take hold of you.