Murie Quotes

#1. A legitimate plurality of positions has yielded to an undifferentiated pluralism, based upon the assumption that all positions are equally valid, which is one of today's most widespread symptoms of the lack of confidence in truth.

Pope John Paul II

#2. What are our lungs supposed to do?" I shouted. Shouted: "If they breathe fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breathe slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rhythm they perish from the mere search.

Franz Kafka

#3. Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

Adolph Murie

#5. The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves ... was their friendliness towards each other.

Adolph Murie

#6. My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

Jack Markell

#7. You could not measure yourself against the dead, they retained their perfection while your flesh got weaker and weaker.

Philipp Meyer

#8. Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

Rollo May

#9. Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

Olaus Murie

#11. Let us be guardians, not gardeners

Adolph Murie

#12. 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?

Margaret Murie

#13. The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

Isabel Allende

#14. So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

David Platt

#15. On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know.
On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

Philippe Petit

#16. While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

Douglas Brinkley

#17. A leader who is through learning is through.

John Wooden

#18. That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that.

Daniela Hantuchova

#19. We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

Olaus Murie