Olaus Murie Quotes

#1. And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Libba Bray

#2. The healing power lies in the encounter with sensitive people; it makes life worth living.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#3. It's when you're on the row
that you notice that
everything
is owned
and that there are locks on
everything
this is the way a democracy
works:
you get what you can,
try to keep that
and add to it
if possible

Charles Bukowski

#4. 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

#5. It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?

David S. Cross

#6. Such decisions ab extra* are sometimes a wonderful relief to those whose habit it has been to decide, not only for themselves, but for every one else;and occasionally the relaxation of the strain which a character for infallible wisdom brings with it does much to restore health.
*from outside

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. Beauty is the door to another world ...

Wojciech Kurtyka

#8. 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