Wilderness Quotes

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

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of 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 idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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