Wilderness Preservation System

Famous quotes containing the words wilderness, preservation and/or system:

    “The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he appeared publicly to Israel.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:80.

    “If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)