Wilderness Quotes - page 3

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. (Loren Eiseley)
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 a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. View quote
Dan Lipinski
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. View quote
Eskinder Nega
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament. View quote
Edward Burtynsky
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. View quote
Herbert Croly
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness. View quote
Hugh Sidey
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. View quote
Jane Campion
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there. View quote
Jay Griffiths
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness. View quote
Jeffrey Tate
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses. (Lena Headey)
For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. View quote
Michael K. Simpson
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. View quote
Nick Rahall
Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill. View quote
Nick Rahall
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions. View quote
Nick Rahall
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. View quote
Nick Rahall
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia. View quote
Noah Taylor
When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque. View quote
Rick Santelli
Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness. View quote
Steve Mann
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. View quote
Stewart Udall
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 women. (Mahatma Gandhi)
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. View quote
Robert Moses
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. View quote
Michael Pollan
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. View quote
George Aiken
The driver of the wagon swaying through forest and swamp of the Ohio wilderness was a ragged girl of fourteen. View quote
Sinclair Lewis