Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It's about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no… — J.M. McDermott Copy Share Image
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I remember him as young and restless. Slightly wild and free. The woods were his escape, his sanctuary. Thats where we would… — Jade Copy Share Image
“In such a wild, uncharted place the book of God was vital, for it nourished their spirit and laid boundaries for their… — James Webb Copy Share Image
“I believe we need wilderness in order to be more complete human beings, to not be fearful of the animals that we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered… Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
The first television show I did was a production called 'The Pacific,' which was this huge HBO series with an insane budget… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He… — Brad Gooch Copy Share Image
Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just because I’m Native American doesn’t mean I can track furniture through the wilderness.” She deepened her voice: “‘Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I ended up in Colorado working in wilderness fire prevention. My job was to run around with a chainsaw and cut down… — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
An important measure of our true commitment to environmental quality is our dedication to protecting the wilderness and its inhabitants. We must… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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