Wilderness Quotes - Page 15

• I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably perish on the mountain in much the same way many of the big animals do. I would be long gone before anyone found me. My only wish would be that folks wouldn't spend a lot of time searching. When the time comes for a man to look his Maker in the eye, where better could the meeting be held than in the wilderness?

  Richard Proenneke

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Land, People

  State of the Union Address, www.infoplease.com. December 1, 1862.

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• 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.

  Rick Santelli

  Attitude, Government, Different

  "Rick Santelli: I'm proud to be a firebrand" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mountain, Minorities, Woods

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.194, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Alastair Humphreys

  Needs, Sides, Planets

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

  Jane Kirkpatrick

  Land, Stories, Wander

  FaceBook post by Jane Kirkpatrick from Jan 06, 2015

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• Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Teenager, Home, Beer

  Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Night, People, Choices

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• People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Play, People

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• Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

  Steve Mann

  Shoes, Naked, Boots

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• 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.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Believe, Idaho, Land

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• 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.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Spiritual, Character, Men

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• Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Eye, Journey, Men

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• There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Adversity, Unique

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• The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Thinking, Air, Ivory

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

  Louise Erdrich

  Dream, Soul, Desire

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• When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

  Louise Erdrich

  Sleep, World, May

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• But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

  Joseph Conrad

  Mad, Heaven, Soul

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.134, Penguin

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• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  James G. Frazer

  Dream, Strong, Powerful

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• The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart of what happens when man meets God on the mountain in the wilderness. Ultimately, it is the very life of man, man himself as living righteously, that is the true worship of God, but life only becomes real life when it receives its form from looking toward God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Real, Heart, Men

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

  Edward Abbey

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

  Aldo Leopold

  Priorities, Challenges, Might

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.160, UNM Press

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• Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, What Matters, Self

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.195, Grove Press

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• Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts!

  Rick Riordan

  Looks, Calling, Said

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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