Pastoral Resources

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

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

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

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

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

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

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.