Wilderness Quotes - Page 3

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

Cherish your wilderness.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.

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.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.