Wilderness Quotations

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty.

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

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

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

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.

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.

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

What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

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

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

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.

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

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

Let's celebrate the progress we're making in preserving a good piece of our 'original earth' -? the wilderness areas on public lands that belongs to all of us, no matter where we live.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.

Idaho has a number of areas that are being considered for wilderness areas... and perhaps as Secretary of the Interior, Kempthorne would be in a position to move that forward.

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land.

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

I look forward to visiting a national park and not holding a press conference in there. I look forward to being able to contemplate the wilderness without having reporters and their notebooks following me.

When he came to us he struggled for a year. He didn't fit in to the team straightaway. When he had opportunities, he didn't do well. We were a little bit at a loss as how to bring out the best in him. I found I really couldn't help him. ... There were times last season when he was in the wilderness and very much confused as to what was required.

He needs privacy and time. I'm going to take Jim out to the wilderness somewhere and take a long, restorative wilderness walk.

Nancy Johnson has moved from being a quiet champion of the wilderness bill to leading the charge in opposition to the Republican leadership's effort to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

I think the best thing Wilderness Gardens has to offer is peace and quiet.

It is a weekly, and now daily, drumbeat of rollbacks of hard-fought and hard-won progress to protect the air and the water and the wilderness and the environment of this country, ... This is the most alarming rollback in environmental efforts that we have ever seen.

I think the world cares a lot about British Columbians respecting their wilderness and the natural beauty we all live in.

Rep. Nancy Johnson has always been a champion of legislation to protect the Arctic Refuge as a wilderness area. Showing great independence, Rep. Johnson has led the effort in the House to block efforts to use the budget process to open up the refuge to oil and gas exploration. Her leadership has been indispensable to the millions of Americans who place a priority on safeguarding our environment and protecting America?s great wilderness areas.

Our goal in these settlement negotiations will be to achieve a project method that will provide strong protections for wildlife, wilderness qualities and fossil resources.

It feels like a backcountry wilderness primitive campsite.

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

Wilderness preservation is one area of environmental progress where Congress could write a surprisingly impressive record of accomplishment in 2006. In state after state, ordinary citizens inspired by these successes are working hard to encourage Congress to complete action on other pending wilderness proposals.

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.

The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

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

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

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.

And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

Thicket by thicket and wetland by wetland, we were losing the Greater Golden Horseshoe's remaining wilderness and diversity of life. The greenbelt is stopping the loss of natural features and the species they host.

The wilderness is derived by not being allowed to know what's next until you do your homework. The people who stop and do this are so much better off because they really clarify their values and priorities,

The Wilderness Society recognizes climbing as a long-standing tradition in wilderness, yet we recognize that climbing can have, like many recreational uses, an impact.

When you look at the mosaic of fires that have burned over the last 20 years, it's probably very similar to what occurred in the 1800s. Not a whole lot of fires occurred in the wilderness from 1929 to 1985.

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

What this means is that millions of Americans are going to drive through the Upper Green Valley headed for the national parks or wilderness areas - and their views of these mountains are going to be smudged.

This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.

British Columbians are showing that it is possible to protect the environment and provide the economic foundation for healthy communities. This innovative rainforest agreement provides a real world example of how people and wilderness can prosper together.

The One Lord and Master dwells in the home; He is seen in the wilderness as well. I have become fearless; the Saint has removed my doubts.

The tent is at the foot of the Fisher Towers, spires of skinny red rock set in a wilderness a quarter of a mile from the river. Intermission is at sunset, a show unto itself.

Both the historic resource and wilderness character were slipping away from us. We had to figure out how to compromise our divergent perspectives without compromising Cumberland Island.

As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

All at once A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone.

All at onceA fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,And I am in the wilderness alone.

This innovative rainforest agreement provides a real world example of how people and wilderness can prosper together.

You open the door to aircraft in the wilderness anywhere you see a wolf, you open it when you see an elk or anything else.

In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.

If you put a wilderness designation on there, the management options are gone,

Society was once surrounded by wilderness; now wilderness is surrounded by society. Once you divide that wilderness, it is no longer recoverable.

the bays wilderness character makes it a favorite destination of Juneaus residents for camping, boating, fishing, bird watching, kayaking, whale watching, and many other recreational activities. Berners Bay contributes enormously to Juneaus quality of life. This mine, with its docks and vessel traffic, puts the bays wildlife at risk, and will severely impact the recreational uses of the area. Its the first step in turning Berners Bay into an industrial zone.

The island is a one-stop shop for wilderness and outdoor adventure. You can get your feet dirty by day and be pampered at night.

Classes taught by professional Wilderness Medical Associates instructors are fast-paced, with an emphasis on practical skills, including full-scale rescue simulations, fake wounds and stage blood.