Remembering Edward Abbey on Why Wilderness Matters

Regarding the value of wilderness (“Finding Wilderness,” by Frank Clifford, Nov. 30), perhaps Henry David Thoreau and Edward Abbey expressed it best. Abbey said: “I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.” He also said: “Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.”

William E. Mooz

Santa Monica