Wilderness Quotes

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 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.

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

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.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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