Wilderness Quotes - Page 22

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Garden, Environment

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• Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

  Stef Penney

  Mean, Thinking, Race

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• No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

  Townsend Whelen

  Men, Stalking, Competent

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• The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day.

  Charles Todd

  Lonely, Editors, Numbers

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Hurt, Humor

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• It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

  Aldo Leopold

  Lilies, Golden, Certain

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.141, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Wish, Longing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Years, Europe

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• The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he was left to die in the wilderness and a giant, benevolent bird rescued him and became his guardian angel. This tale thrilled me; I've always wanted to write about it.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Moving, Writing, Angel

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• Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Garden, Tree, Parks

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension of human need or of human justification. It is itself and it is inviolate, itself. This does not mean that, therefore, we become separated from it, because we don't. We stay connected if, once in our lives, we learn exactly what that connection is between our heart, our womb, our mind, and wilderness. And when each of us has her wilderness within her, we can be together in a balanced kind of way. The forever, we have that within us.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Nature, Heart, Mean

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

  Zoe Helene

  Struggle, Home, Expansion

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• We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.

  Paul Watson

  Communication, Ecosystems, People

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• You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Heavy, Packs, Walking

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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• Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Unexpected, Study

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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• But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. That place that shaped our psyches and made us who we are. The place where nature is big and we are small.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Psych, Who We Are

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea of Home”, p.12, HarperCollins Australia

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• When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.

  Estwick Evans

  Memories, Passion, Men

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• How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.

  Estwick Evans

  Men, Names, Silence

  Estwick EVANS (1819). “A Pedestrian Tour of four thousand miles throught the Western States and Territories during the winter and spring of 1818. Interspersed with Reflections”, p.102

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• You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.

  Jonas Salk

  Team, Eye, Differences

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

  Samuel Butler

  Wall, Science, Ideas

  'Notebooks' (1912) ch. 14

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• But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

  Francis Bacon

  True Friend, Real, Solitude

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.47, 谷月社

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• New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, New York, Native American

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

  William J. Clinton

  President, Example, Citizens

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• My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse - to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Writing, Southern Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

  Michael Light

  Sublime, Idyllic, Noble

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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