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• God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Strength, Soul, May

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

  Cotton Mather

  Land, Passing, Conditions

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• In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

  Isaiah

  Together, Mountain, Desert

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• Wilderness. The word itself is music.

  Edward Abbey

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.146, University of Arizona Press

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• Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.

  Unknown

  Father, Eye, Fighting

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• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

  Aldo Leopold

  Invasion, Retreat, Wildlife

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.175, Oxford University Press

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• THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

  James Lee Burke

  Commitment, Use, Montana

  James Lee Burke (2014). “Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

  Benton MacKaye

  Essence, Civilization, Pavement

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• If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

  Edward Abbey

  Outlaw, Ifs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure, to be off the beaten path, to be in the wilderness feels like abandonment. It seems more like exile than a vacation. To be so far off of everyone’s radar that the world might forget about us for a while? That’s almost akin to death…[But] far from being punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God.

  Jonathan Martin

  Vacation, Media, Punishment

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• Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Pioneers

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

  Judi Bari

  Addresses, Destruction, Destroying

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• Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.

  Truman Capote

  Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking

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• He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nature, Brother, Stars

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• I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

  Felicia Day

  Writing, Fantasy Novels, Challenges

  Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Kings, Thinking, Years

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• Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

  Olaus Murie

  Wise, Land, Numbers

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• Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

  Noah Taylor

  Home, Australia, Individualism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

  James M. Kouzes

  Dream, Rely Upon, Leader

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

  Karel Appel

  Creativity, Fighting, Artist

  "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.

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• Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Devil, Saint

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

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• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Airplane

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Appreciation, Adventure, Past

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• Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

  Pope Francis

  Powerful, Love Life, Love Is

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.145, SPCK

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