Wilderness Quotes

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.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

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

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.