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Pastoral Resources
Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Wilderness'
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey, American Author (1927-1989)
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey, American Author (1927-1989)
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
George Aiken, American Politician (1892-1984)
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda, American Actor (1936- )
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda, American Actor (1936- )
My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.
Rene Auberjonois, American Actor (1940- )
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
Bruce Babbitt, American Politician (1938- )
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Elayne Boosler, American Comedian (1952- )
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
James H. Breasted, -
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
Tim Cahill, Australian Athlete (1979- )
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, American Artist (1801-1848)
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Herbert Croly, American Author (1869-1930)
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Kate DiCamillo, American Author (1964- )
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney, American Cartoonist (1901-1966)
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Henry Ellis, British Psychologist (1859- )
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
Jim Fowler, American Scientist (1932- )
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
Matthew Fox, -
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
John Hope Franklin, American Historian (1915- )
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett Hardin, American Environmentalist (1915-2003)
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician (1911-1978)
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