The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett HardinThe only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett HardinTo say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
Garrett HardinThe only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
Garrett Hardin