Wednesday, February 27, 2013

They Call It Peace

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...  ~ John Muir

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.  ~ Wallace Stengner

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.  ~ Jimmy Carter

And this is what happened, and this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.  ~ Farley Mowat

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.  ~ Tacitus

Quotes about wilderness, nature, life