Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall
Wilderness activist, conservationist and writer remembered for founding The Wilderness Society in 1935. Some of his best known works include the 1930 essay "The Problem of the Wilderness" and the 1933 book Arctic Village.
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 January 1901
memorable home unique
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.
picturing situations
What we're picturing is we'll give them (developers) the choice. There may be situations where it would be better for them to use concrete.
passion civilization solitude
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.
distance fall black
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.
children firsts vengeance
When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,
christian children animal
The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion who have handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first-born of any, Nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first-born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest,
christian animal men
In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.