T. H. Watkins Quotes

United States, Author
1936 – 2000.

T.H. Watkins, a historian of the American West, a magazine editor and a prolific writer on environmental issues, died on Wednesday at his home in Bozeman, Mont. He was 63.

As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

T. H. Watkins
- World
- Nature
- Challenge
The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.

T. H. Watkins
- Up
- Nature
- Water

Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make wilderness not a battlefield but a revelation.

T. H. Watkins
- Love
- Joy
- Powerful