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No explanation offered or required ... these are simply some
favourite quotes that we have 'accumulated.' We place them
here as a reflection of how we feel about Canada' wilderness
areas.
While seeking the secrets of nature I have watched the salutary
effects of stillness and peace on human hearts and minds.
I have seem the overpowering beauty of dawns and sunsets reach
into troubled breasts and heal hurts that were thought beyond
medicine and philosophy. And I have seen those burdened
with grief take on the silence of the forest aisles until they
could hear that still, small voice which lifts hope and faith
with wordless assurance.
Sam Campbell
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human
heart.
Tanaka Shozo
In nature their are neither rewards nor punishments - there are
consequences.
R. G. Ingersoll
There are yet many boys to be born who, like Isaiah, "may
see, and know, and understand together, that the hand of the
Lord hath done this." But where shall they see, and
know, and consider? In museums?
Aldo Leopold
What, pray tell, would I buy? There is nothing out here
that is not free for the asking. Can you buy a sunrise?
Is there a price to the exhilaration we feel from the
thunderstorm that rages outside? Nature is the truest
democracy, and not the richest man in the world is served a
grander sunset than the beggar.
Michael Furtman
Sit outside at midnight and close your eyes; feel the grass, the
air, the space. Listen to the birds for ten minutes at
dawn. Memorize a flower.
Linda Hasselstrom
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity,
stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong
when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature
inspires.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose,
for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can their
be dedication in preserving it.
Sigurd F. Olson
Being a wilderness enthusiast is a lot like sitting on an ice
floe. Every day the floe gets smaller as pieces break off
and float away. you know that it will continue to get
smaller day by day, never bigger. That is the reality that
all lovers of wild lands have to face.
Bill Mason
At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in
whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.
Sigurd F. Olson
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he
needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and myster of the
world we live in.
Rachel Carson
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to
everything else.
Barry Commoner
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude
understood only when we have been without it. We cannot
separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing and love.
Unless we contribute something from wilderness experience,
derive some solace or peace to share with others, then the real
purpose is defeated.
Sigurd F. Olson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
If I knew all there is to know about a golden arctic poppy
growing on a rocky ledge in the far north, I would know the
whole story of evolution and creation.
Sigurd F. Olson.
In nature, one never really sees a thing for the first time
until one has seen it for the fiftieth.
Joseph Wood Krutch
A nature lover is someone who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the
view.
Anonymous
My heart is moved by all I cannot save. So much has been
destroyed, I have to cast my lot with those who age after age,
perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
A passion to make, and make again where such un-making reigns.
Adrienne Rich
Nature affects our minds as light affects the photographic
emulsion on a film. Some films are more sensitive than
others; some minds are more receptive.
Edwin Way Teale
Here is calm so deep, grasses cease waving ... wonderful how
completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly
part and parent of us. The sun shines not on us, but in
us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling,
tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our
bodies, making them glide and sing.
John Muir
Anyone who tells you portaging is fun is either a liar, or
crazy, or maybe both.
Bill Mason
It was not any human voice, and yet it had a human ring.
It was not the voice of any beast, and yet it came, as it were
from the strength of the beast. it could not be the voice
of a bird, no bird could be big enough, and yet there was
something birdlike in its tone. If it were not the voice
of man, beast or bird, what could it be? It was not
sorrowful nor joyful nor terrible. it was great and
strange. It came from the heart of the wilderness or rock,
miles from any human dwelling. It was like the rock
speaking.
John Masefield
To stick your hands into the river is to feel the cords that
bind the earth together in one piece.
Barry Lopez
All the water that has ever been or ever will be is here now.
It sits, it runs, it rises as mist. It evaporates and
falls again as rain or snow. You cannot pollute a drop of
water anywhere without eventually poisoning some distant place.
Michael Furtman
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a
squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes
acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers
then.
Samuel Jackson
The song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is
other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. To
hear even a few notes of it, you must first live here for a long
time, and then you must know the speech of hills and rivers.
then on a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades
have climbed over the rimrocks, sit quietly and listen for a
wolf to howl, and think hard of everything you have seen and
tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast,
pulsating harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its
notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms
spanning the seconds and the centuries.
Aldo Leopold
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