Wilderness Quotes - Page 20

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

  Thomas Cole

  Men, Hands, Know How

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• It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moon, Men

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• In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Book, Garden, Tears

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• Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.

  Tom Bodett

  Men, Alaska, Three

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

  Harry Frankfurt

  Philosopher, Obliged

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• All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

  Jay Griffiths

  Holiday, White, People

  "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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• 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.

  David R. Brower

  Nature, Real, Sedentary

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• I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Survival, Woods

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Garden, Environment

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• I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

  Paul Gauguin

  Nature, Powerful, Heart

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, America, Lines

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• We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

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• For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

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• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Empires

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• How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

  Dick Francis

  Fire, People, Ashes

  Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”

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• The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Long, Evil

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• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Rivers

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• When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.

  J. H. Rush

  Men, Way, Force

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• I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

  Gary Snyder

  Ignorance, Mind, Trying

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• I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Fashion, Thinking, Careers

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

  Bob Brown

  Religious, Mean, Men

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

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• To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

  Joel Edgerton

  Rocks, Tennis, Balls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

  Bob Dylan

  Evil, Mud, Void

  Song: Shelter from the Storm

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• The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

  Leslie Stephen

  Nature, Children, Environment

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• A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Civilization, Names

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