Wilderness Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

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.

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

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

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.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.