Benton Mackaye Quotes

#1. One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

Benton MacKaye

#2. I'm going to kick down that fucking door at the end of the long, dark hallway and show everyone that I deserve the light.

Tara Sivec

#3. However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

Benton MacKaye

#4. For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.

Benton MacKaye

#5. You wouldn't think there was a need for a Coase Theorem, really.

Ronald Coase

#6. It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.

Dean Alford

#7. There are three things: to walk, to see, and to see what you see.

Benton MacKaye

#8. tunic back on. "Goodbye, sir," he said. "Thank you for my

Lois Lowry

#9. I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

Matthew Quick

#10. I crave intimate love. Words that make my soul dance, a touch that gives me goosebumps, eye contact that electrifies my entire body, a kiss that could have me questioning whose air I am breathing.

Nikki Rowe

#11. It was fun. I'd never done anything like that. I'd never done any bi-sexual or lesbian scenes before, but it was really fun.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#12. 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.

Benton MacKaye

#13. A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Benton MacKaye

#14. Statements are made so plainly and positively that men have hardly the moral courage to pause upon them and find that they are without support.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. ..there are two possible endings to every story.

Christie Watson

#16. The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

Benton MacKaye

#17. I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

Ruben Studdard

#18. Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost