#wilder

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. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#another #boone #chimney #could #crowded

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#cities #especially #fitted #into #land

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. ↗

— James Longstreet

#bad #battle #being #honest #many

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ↗

— John Muir

#clearest #forest #into #through #universe

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. ↗

— John Muir

#alaska #countries #lover #most #wilderness

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art. ↗

— James Naughton

#bases #kind #now #shorthand #some

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. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#i #legislative #legislative process #part #process

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. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#central #designation #i #i believe #idaho

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#away #create #i #realize #walk

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#empire #make #peace #plunder #slaughter