Wilderness Quotes - Page 18

• It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

  Edward Dahlberg

  People, Imagination, Criticism

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

  Martin Luther

  Garden, Fields, Evolution

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• 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.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Daughter, Mother, Dog

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Engineering, Accomplishment

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• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  Brad Gooch

  Education, Teaching, Cutting

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• The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.

  Robert Wyland

  Lying, Ocean, Marine

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• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.

  Howard Zahniser

  Quality, Essentials, Remember

  Howard Zahniser, Ed Zahniser, George D. Davis, Paul Schaefer, Douglas W. Scott (1992). “Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser”, North Country Books Incorporated

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• Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

  John Bright

  Complaints, Ten Commandments, Remarks

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• It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

  Tom Bodett

  School, Alaska, Mountain

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• Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead us to goodness, beauty, strength and health? Where are those who utter heartwarming words, who will lead us out of the wilderness? Our homes are gone and the nation is destroyed, yet we have no Jeremiah crying out his last sad song to the world and to posterity.

  Lu Xun

  Song, Hero, Home

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• 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.

  Matthew Fox

  Animal, Effort, Disappear

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• O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

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

  Herbert Croly

  Ocean, Land, Promise

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Eye, Sight

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

  Cheryl Strayed

  Clarity, Skeptical, Feels

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.

  Bruce Dern

  Guy, Mountain, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

  Sam Keen

  Risk, Path, Saws

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

  Aldo Leopold

  Resources, Grows, Shrinks

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.199, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Sadness, Animal, Skills

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• Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

  Lionel Johnson

  Years, Library, Needs

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• There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey . . . something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Helping, Prey

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

  Robert Anderson

  Men, Brain, Noise

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• America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.

  Ronald Wright

  Europe, Land, Civilization

  Ronald Wright (2005). “Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.

  Takashi Nagai

  Suicide, War, Mean

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