Philippe Falardeau Quotes

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

I would be quite willing personally to leave the whole country as a wilderness for the next half-century, but I fear that if Englishmen do not go there, Yankees will.

I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

To leave Indian tribes in possession of their country is to leave the country a wilderness.

The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong.

This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.

To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of global dialectic. I want there to be wilderness where there are no humans in a world like this. So nature is super important.

The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London. There's nothing there. I just had to get out. The U.K. is the perfect place to come.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.

I think that we are blessed to live here in Canada.