Wilderness Quotes - Page 14

• Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Woods, Today

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• Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Responsibility, Men

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• The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

  Rene Dubos

  Mother, Three, Earth

  René Jules Dubos (1980). “The Wooing of Earth”, Scribner Book Company

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• Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Future, Space

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• As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Running, Adventure, Eye

  "Singing Wilderness".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Land, Feelings

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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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• 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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• 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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• I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Desert, Forests

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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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• People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents, compared with drought. To watch your land shrivel and die, year in and year out, to see beautiful fields turn to dust bowls, to watch your animals starve and die. To suffer all this, only to be then washed away in a flood, your home and your family treasures lost and destroyed. And then to pick up the pieces and start again. The farmers of the South are brave!

  Sara Henderson

  Beautiful, Home, Fighting

  Sara Henderson (2013). “From Strength to Strength”, p.321, Pan

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• National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Intelligent, Generations, National Parks

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• Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Mean, Air

  "Lady Bird Johnson’s Letters Affirm Passion for Nature" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

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• I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Hero, Heart

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Nature, Long, Community

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• I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Men, Doubt

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• I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Strong, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Marilynne Robinson Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 18, 2009.

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• I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Photography, Years, Space

  "As nature bleeds, Edward Burtynsky gets the big picture" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 06, 2005.

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• Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, May, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from the Florida Keys to southeastern Canada. He bears witness not only to wilderness that still sustains bears, panthers, and bobcats but also to the possibilities for connecting further wildways in the eastern United States. His inspiring journey reminds us all that we must rediscover the wildness we still have before we lose it forever.

  Michael Brune

  Recovery, Journey, Keys

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