12/29/1974
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"The Nation as a whole is enriched by the availability of the wilderness experience to those who are able and willing to seek it."
"Wilderness preservation insures that a central facet of our Nation can still be realized, not just remembered."
"For our ancestors, the ability to live in rugged, undeveloped countryside was often a matter of survival."
"The world today looks to the United States of America for leadership."