W Quotes
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“Wilder wrote, 'The roses scented the wind, and along the road the fresh blossoms, with their new petals and golden centers, looked up like little faces.”
Source: Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
“Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.”
Source: Wilderness and the American Mind
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“Wilderness begins in the human mind.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing and love. Unless we can contribute something from wilderness experience, derive some solace or peace to share with others, then the real purpose is defeated.”
Source: Reflections from the North Country
“Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.”
“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”
“Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.”
“Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.”
Source: Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence
“Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.”
“Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.”
“Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.”
“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.”
“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.”
“Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.”
“Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.”
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.”
“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.”
“Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.”
“Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.”
Source: Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio
“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.”
“Wilderness is where the hand of man does not linger”
“Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?”
“Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”
“Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.”
“Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.”
“Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
“Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his son]. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.”
“Wilderness. The word itself is music.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Wildfire Heart…
i think it’s breathtaking…
how your heart just spills out of you.
it's some kind of soul ache just… pouring. out.
it's somewhere dark that
your spirit has had to fight from…
but beautiful things spill out of you
the way wildfires burn… the way
butterflies fly wild… the way fireflies glow…
the way it all spills out of you
is just… breathtaking.”
Source: she's flowers and fire
“Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.”
“Wildfires turned Lahaina into a clone of a bombed out Ukrianian city.”
“Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.”
Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
“Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head,
It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.”
“Wildflowers after rain
the heart breaks open and little bright seeds fall out.”
Source: The House of Broken Angels
“Wildflowers are breathtaking and rugged. They grow magnificently free, abundant and undisciplined by nature, completely in flow with the current of life, innocent and unruly, and at ease in their fully expanded state.”
Source: Wildhearted Purpose: Embrace Your Unique Calling & the Unmapped Path of Authenticity
“Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!”
“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“Wildflowers don't care where they grow.”