Margaret Murie quotes

Margaret Murie quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?”
-- Margaret Murie

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“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
“The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.”
“Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.”
“I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.”
“When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?”
“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
“Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.”
“My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.”

Source : In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.
“You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 12, 2013.

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