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Harvey Benjamin Broome (July 15, 1902 – March 8, 1968) was an American lawyer, writer and conservationist. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Broome was a founding member of The Wilderness Society, for which he served as president from 1957 until his death in 1968, and played a key role in the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club is named the "Harvey Broome Group" in his honor.

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These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.

Accounting, Age, Islands, Mankind, Years

The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered. . . . Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip to living-each has an unsurpassed lilt which bursts from the deepest wellsprings of life. These are the realities found in the wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Giving, Mountains, Quality, Reality, Wherever, Wilderness

And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes. Everything edible, from mice and chipmunks to roots and berries and apples was converted into bear. And bear and his tracks are converted into wonder and adventure for man.

Adventure, Everything, Men, Silverbell, Squirrels

Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not. . . created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

Alleviate, Dank, Literature, Men, Pain, Sunset

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to the challenges of the untrammeled wilderness.

America, Challenges, Drive, Eventually, Optimism, Unquenchable

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Forever, Wilderness, World

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

America, Capacity, Eventually, Lose, Wilderness

Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

America, Coast, Mettle, Rivers, War

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