"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."

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Source : "The Wilderness Act". Public Law 88-577; 16 USC 1131-1136, September 3, 1964.

Howard Zahniser

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“Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and well-secured chest, the knowledge of the inspired Scriptures and the inestimable riches they contain. Those who enter into the house will never at all be able to see those treasures unless this chest is opened for them. But it does not belong to human wisdom (cf. I Cor. 2:13) ever to be able to open it, so that the riches of the Spirit deposited in it remain unknown to all who are worldly.”
“I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.”

Source : "Just For Laughs: On The Edge". 2002.
“When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.”
“Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.”
“A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.”
“Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.”
“Are you listening, little bird?”
“There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.”

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