Wilderness Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.