Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has… — Aldo Leopold
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
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… — Sigurd F. Olson
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there… — Sigurd F. Olson
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is… — Sigurd F. Olson
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all… — Sigurd F. Olson
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,… — Unknown Author
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… — Gary Snyder
Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world — Gary Snyder
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The… — Wallace Stegner
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural… — Mark Udall
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve… — Bernard DeVoto
Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths… — Walt Whitman
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace. — Terry Tempest Williams
The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the… — Howard Zahniser
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth… — Howard Zahniser
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up,… — Charles Spurgeon
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. — Annie Dillard
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full… — David Foreman
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops… — David Whyte
Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the… — Bob Brown
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh… — Gaylord Nelson
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. — William Cowper

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