We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“...I found myself questioning many assumptions about 'nature' and 'wilderness' that were common in conservation at the time. Were all introduced species… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“[Thoreau's] famous night in jail took place about halfway through his stay in the cabin on Emerson's woodlot at Walden Pond. His… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness is Adophe Monod at his best. It is a masterpiece, bringing together profound comfort, realistic understanding, practical… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over. 6.” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“I was spun into gold ropes, silk petals and rebuilt in it I found more of Him in it And me in… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“I am nothing to you. You say I am wilderness. I am. Is that a tremble on your mouth, in your eye?… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.” — E'yen A. Gardner Copy Share Image
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find… — Jan L. Richardson Copy Share Image
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I met a Swedish single mum called Annalise who is living in the wilderness. Her dilemma is finding enough wood to make… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow… — John Muir Copy Share Image
![“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and…” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/74b/michael-pollan-408_garden_anthropocentric-as-the-gardener-may-be-h_3049569.jpg)
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