Wilderness Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.