(297 quotes found)
“The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples”
Walter Lippmann
“Rep. Nancy Johnson has always been a champion of legislation to protect the Arctic Refuge as a wilderness area. Showing great independence, Rep. Johnson has led the effort in the House to block efforts to use the budget process to open up the refuge to oil and gas exploration. Her leadership has been indispensable to the millions of Americans who place a priority on safeguarding our environment and protecting America?s great wilderness areas.”
Lisa Renstrom
“O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more”
William Cowper
“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top.”
Bible
“The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.”
“[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.”
Terry Tempest Williams
“The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.”
“The green world was . . . unpredictable and chaotic. It was an unmediated place literally represented by the forest, the wilderness, where you learned things you don't necessarily want to know about yourself.”
Dar Williams
“The Wilderness Society recognizes climbing as a long-standing tradition in wilderness, yet we recognize that climbing can have, like many recreational uses, an impact.”
Jay Watson
