#wilderness

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#thorn #warning #whole #wilderness #worth

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#developers #home #i #into #nothing

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#merits #own #pro #quid #quo

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#cannot #committee #ever #fact #half

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#comes #common #common denominator #denominator #designation

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#goes #like #living #mirrors #unchallenged

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life. ↗

— Thomas Cole

#hand #how #know #life #man

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#environmentalism #wilderness #environmentalism

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men. ↗

— Jim Kjelgaard

#dogs #wilderness #men