Wilderness Quotes

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

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.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

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

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

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

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

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.