Best land & wilderness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.”

“The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness.”

Source: Breaking New Ground

“Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.”

People Should Study Land Conditions Healthy Disease Doctors Originals Regions Wilderness Disorder Mechanism Representatives Sample Normality

Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

“Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.”

Years May Destiny Doubt Land Passing Passings Wander Wilderness Sentiments Divided Honey Milk Our Destiny Promised Land Milk And Honey

Author:Benjamin Graham

“What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.”

Needs Should Use Order House Responsibility Land Wilderness Ethical Justification Lawns Clearing Permaculture Erosion

Author:Bill Mollison

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Space Cities Half Technology Five Land Connections Towns Edges Enormous Contact Zone Wilderness Settlement Satellites Disconnection Time Zones Half Time

Author:B. W. Powe

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

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Author:Michael Chabon

“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.”

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.”

Strong Understanding Attention Impossible Land Emotional Developing Subtle Wilderness Inward Strong Emotional

Book:Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.”

“America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.”

Made America Found Waiting History Land Civilization Europe Wilderness Virgins Widows

Book:Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas

Source: Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas

“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."”

People Knows Home Animal Numbers Greater Land Dangerous Grew Grew Up Advantage Towns Miles Wilderness Representation Attacking Acres Wild Animal Minnesota Unsafe Depiction

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“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.”

Feels Humans Made Strong Land Youth Wilderness Strong Bond

Author:Boyd Norton

“Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.”

Heart Together Land Wilderness Wholeness Marriage Advice Happy Marriage Promised Land Troubled Relationship Marriage Toast

Book:Letters to Karen: A Father's Advice On Keeping Love in Marriage

Source: Letters to Karen: A Father's Advice On Keeping Love in Marriage

“Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.”

May Has Beens Self Country Home Nations Half Land Citizens Constitution Claims Guides Ideology Wilderness Serving Self Serving

Author:Larisa Alexandrovna

“Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.”

Years Believe Fate Land Wander Forty Wilderness Promised Land

Book:The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy

Source: The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy

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

Study Land Importance Assuming Unexpected Wilderness Laboratory

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.”

People Ifs Firsts America Used Land Empty Deny Invisible Defined Native Wilderness Occupation Native American Arrivals Columbus

Author:Vandana Shiva

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