#wilder

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The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.


William H. Wharton


#could #ever #government #granted #had

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.


Henryk Sienkiewicz


#death #death-and-dying #disease #malaria #sickness

And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is clean, a lawn laundry that wipes away the mud, the insect, the bramble, nettle and thistle, an Eezy-wipe lawn where nothing of life, dirty and glorious, remains. Golf turns outdoors into indoors, a prefab mat of stultified grass, processed, pesticided, herbicided, the pseudo-green of formica sterility. Here, the grass is not singing. The wind cannot blow through it. Dumb expression, greenery made stupid, it hums a bland monotone in the key of the mono-minded. No word is emptier than a golf tee. No roots, it has no known etymology, it is verbal nail polish. Worldwide, golf is an arch act of enclosure, a commons fenced and subdued for the wealthy, trampling serf and seedling. The enemy of wildness, it is a demonstration of the absolute dominion of man over wild nature.


Jay Griffiths


#nature #western-civilization #wilderness #life

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.


Steve Martin


#believe #country #i #i believe #i believe that

Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.


Steve Martin


#differences #dress #grammys #i #i think

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.


Austin O'Malley


#clears #harvest #imagination #plants #reason

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.


Nick Rahall


#activities #certain #characteristics #defined #invaluable

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.


Logan P. Smith


#know #old #sad #want #young

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.


Lorenz Hart


#bewildered #bewitched #bothered #i

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.


Aldo Leopold


#camping #canoeing #primitive-arts #wilderness #art