Pastoral Resources

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

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.