Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful… — Theodore Roosevelt
The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of… — Gifford Pinchot
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that… — Theodore Roosevelt
I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be… — John Muir
The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not… — Gifford Pinchot
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season. — Arthur Lismer
If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was. — Harvey Broome
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal… — Roderick Nash
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and… — Mahatma Gandhi
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is… — Jayne Anne Phillips
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. — Jim Fowler
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from… — Rachel Cusk
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. — Walt Disney
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. — Havelock Ellis
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. — Garrett Hardin
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt… — Hubert H. Humphrey
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. — Aldo Leopold
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. — Charles Lindbergh
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects… — Dan Lipinski
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. — Walter Lippmann
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. — James Russell Lowell
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I… — Nelson Mandela
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… — Joyce Meyer
There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin.… — Joyce Meyer

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