Dr Edwards has been the catalyst for key conservation milestones in WA. If not for Dr Edwards's tenacity, the nature of WA would be worse off and our state a poorer place to live.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Oscar's daughter stood up to Dr. Scott and said, 'What are you doing here?' That was the catalyst to getting things going.

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth.

These protected areas are not only important for the conservation of species they contain, they also hold the key to comparing our own development as a species with our next of kin.