"To those devoid of imagination, a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. (Is my share in Alaska worthless to me because I shall never go there? Do I need a road to show me the arctic prairies, the goose pasture of the Yukon, the Kodiak bear, the sheep meadows behind McKinley?)"

From Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac, page 176.