Sigurd F. Olson

Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an author, wilderness advocate and conservation movement leader. Quotes 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 To anyone who has spent a winter in the Boundary Waters north and known the depths to which the snow can reach, known the weeks when the Mercury-in-glass thermometer mercury stays below Fahrenheit zero, the first hint of spring is a major event. You must live in the north to understand it. You cannot just come up for it as you might to Florida for the sunshine and the surf. To appreciate it, you must wait for it for a long time, hope and dream about it, and go through considerable enduring. Chapter 1. The Winds of March The Singing Wilderness Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012 9780307819901 https://books.google.com/books?id=BmDbxkJ1wK8C&pg=PT16 (245 pages; illustrated by Francis Lee Jacques; 1st edition 1956) Loons must be able to slide instantly into the water, cannot waste precious moments struggling over land. No creature is clumsier out of its element than this great diver of the north. Listening Point Knopf 1958 9780394433585 https://books.google.com/books?id=7Yk5AAAAMAAJ&q=clumsier 69 (242 pages; illustrated by Francis Lee Jacques) ... Here were young aspen and birch with an occasional balsam and a ground cover of striped maple, honeysuckle, and Bracken 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 1990 Voyageur Press https://books.google.com/books?id=ByVFAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=well-grown 75 (1st edition 1969) A new adventure is coming up and I'm sure it will be a good one. Last written words External links Sigurd F. Olson Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College The Listening Point Foundation Category:Environmentalists from the United States Category:Authors from the United States Category:People from Chicago Category:1899 births Category:1982 deaths