50 Quotes on wilderness
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Conscious neutrality refrains from judgment yetquestions the quiet, uncovering truths that pitfalls acknowledgement may shroud.
Author:
Evelyn Chase
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City streets conceal gardens waiting to be untapped, where each foraged morsel serves as a confirmation that paradise blooms in both lush forests and crumbling sidewalks.
Author:
Lila Faunus
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In the heart of the city lies a different kind of wilderness, where creativity brews just beneath the concrete and every sprout whispers its secrets to the curious forager.
Author:
Avery Organizer
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Challenge yourself, the reward is in the journey
Author:
Chloe Reynolds
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The sea calls to me like a siren, its waves both soothing and terrifying in their vastness.
Author:
Marina Singh
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Embrace the chaos, for within wilderness lies true creativity and innovation.
Author:
Maya Thompson
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The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
Author:
William Wharton
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Author:
Giorgio Vasari
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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 rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
Author:
Mark Udall
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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
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Henry Thoreau
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In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
Author:
Noah Taylor
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Author:
Tacitus
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When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.
Author:
John Strachan
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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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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.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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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.
Author:
Hugh Sidey
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Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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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.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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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.
Author:
Michael Pollan
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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Author:
Austin O'Malley
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
Author:
John Muir
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Author:
John Muir
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Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Author:
Hugh Miller
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I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Author:
Steve Martin
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Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.
Author:
Steve Mann
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Author:
James Lowell
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Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
Author:
James Longstreet
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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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.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
Author:
Matthew Fox
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Author:
Walt Disney
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Author:
Kate DiCamillo
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
Author:
Tim Cahill
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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
Author:
James Breasted
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Author:
Elayne Boosler
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It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
Author:
Bruce Babbitt
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My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.
Author:
Rene Auberjonois
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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Author:
Alan Alda
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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.
Author:
Alan Alda
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As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
Author:
George Aiken
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Author:
Edward Abbey
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Author:
Edward Abbey
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