Sigurd F. Olson
Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an author, wilderness advocate and conservation movement leader.
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Quotes
[edit]- Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
- "We Need Wilderness," National Parks Magazine, January–March 1946
- ... Here were young aspen and birch with an occasional balsam and a ground cover of striped maple, honeysuckle, and bracken fern. I listened to the violin notes of a hermit thrush, the flutelike call of a white-throated sparrow, the teacher-teacher of an ovenbird. Following one of the logging roads almost hidden with grass and cover, I flushed a partridge with a flock of well-grown chicks. A deer had walked across the trail, and I found the pellet of a great horned owl. Here was food, abundant food — berries, buds, worms, insects and mice — and this was a place for living things.
- The Hidden Forest. Voyageur Press. 1990. p. 75. (1st edition 1969)
- A new adventure is coming up and I'm sure it will be a good one.
