... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
An important measure of our true commitment to environmental quality is our dedication to protecting the wilderness and its inhabitants. We must… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I ended up in Colorado working in wilderness fire prevention. My job was to run around with a chainsaw and cut down… — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get to see bald… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress… — Carl Pope Copy Share Image
“The nation’s forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United… — Marybeth Lorbiecki Copy Share Image
Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden,… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
“Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
“Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow.… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it all of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile the doctor was saying, “The reason there are so many people on the river these days is because there are too… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and… — George Will Copy Share Image
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