Howard Zahniser famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
-- Howard Zahniser

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The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.
-- Howard Zahniser

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We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness,
-- Howard Zahniser

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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

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I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment.
-- Howard Zahniser

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We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.
-- Howard Zahniser

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.
I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Howard Zahniser famous quotes

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