Wilderness Quotes

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.