Wilderness Quotes

Wilderness Quote of the day

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

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

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

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

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

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.

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

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

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

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.