Quotes about Wilderness

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
-Edward Abbey

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
-John Muir

"Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world."
-Margot Fonteyn

"[As Moses,] I just want to be an ordinary man. In his head and heart, he's in the wilderness. He wants to focus his life on something he believes in, and yet he's not sure he's the right person. He has to lead his people to the Promised Land and figure out what God sees as worthy in him."
-Dougray Scott

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

"It?s just like the local logging communities that opposed the hell out of wilderness and national parks when they were first proposed. The world did not end as they feared, and now they?re better off for it. The same thing will happen with coastal communities and marine reserves."
-Andy Kerr

"For many people, the wolf is an icon of Wisconsin's wilderness, and many people want that image on their car."
-Signe Holtz

"Braddock's road, this brilliant thrust into the wilderness, became the road for people moving into the frontier."
-Frank Cassell

"In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?"
-Aubrey Beardsley

"Touring is the whole experience. When you're in true wilderness, there's only one way to get there, and that's on foot. And you know there won't be a lot of people out there."
-Dick Jackson

"MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants."
-Ambrose Bierce

"This is golden opportunity for Meet the Wilderness. This will be a test to see if it can stand on its own."
-Jim Himmes

"Society was once surrounded by wilderness; now wilderness is surrounded by society. Once you divide that wilderness, it is no longer recoverable."
-James Dawson

"The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask."
-Nancy Newhall

"The problem for bike riders, joggers and hikers in the wilderness is that the mountain lion has its own habitat."
-Pat Mcdonnell

"They plug me in anywhere they can think of. I also teach EMT classes, Wilderness First Responder, CPR, survival skills and rock climbing."
-Scott Egolf

"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."
-Alan Alda

"At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness."
-Peter Stark

"Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread."
-Louise Bogan

"You open the door to aircraft in the wilderness anywhere you see a wolf, you open it when you see an elk or anything else."
-Jon Marvel

"Idaho has a number of areas that are being considered for wilderness areas... and perhaps as Secretary of the Interior, Kempthorne would be in a position to move that forward."
-Justin Hayes

"We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness."
-Tracy Kidder

"I think it is really important that there is a network around the country. You are not a voice crying alone in the wilderness."
-Vicki Kramer

"I'm living in the city and at the same time, I can slip between the cracks in the concrete and find these little spots of wilderness."
-Terrence Wright

"What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
-Gerard Manley Hopkins

"As the parcels included in the quarterly sales have been increasingly controversial over the last few years, from including important habitat for Gunnison Sage Grouse, split-estate lands, and citizen-proposed wilderness areas, BLM going above the minimum the law requires and providing an ample opportunity for the public to be involved would be prudent."
-Reed Morris

"We were successful in eliminating the majority of potential residual risk to wilderness travelers."
-Stan Hooley