Wilderness Preservation Quotes

#1. There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity's control.

J. Meredith Neil

#2. The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.

Starhawk

#3. As a life long vegetarian I believe that since man cannot give life he has no moral right to take it away.

Ketevan Gogelia

#4. A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Edward Abbey

#5. The first step to eternal live is you have to die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

Dalai Lama

#7. People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

Haruki Murakami

#8. If we as Christians were to take Jesus's command seriously and apply it to everyone without partiality, then it would necessarily require that we demand the abolition of all governments wherever they may exist, as they can only exist by a continuous violation of the Golden Rule

Anonymous

#9. William Stegner ... coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

William Petersen

#11. I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene.

Hanshan

#12. If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,

Wallace Stegner

#13. The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

Sam Claflin

#14. Success is a refined study of the obvious

Jim Rohn

#15. In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.

Mo Udall

#16. Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Gary Snyder

#17. But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#18. By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are human values. Its preservation is a purpose that arises out of man's own sense of his fundamental needs

Howard Zahniser

#19. Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

Tommy Hilfiger

#21. A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Paul Gauguin