Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“but love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of… — edward abbey Copy Share Image
When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
“The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver--over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Until humans came and made anthills out of these mountains, Diwan Sahib was saying, looking up at the langurs, the land had… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees.… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves… — J. Meredith Neil Copy Share Image
“The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I own a crevice stuffed with moss and a couch of lemming fur; I sit and listen to the music of water… — John A. Haines Copy Share Image
“Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold. It's the great, big, broad land 'way… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
![“They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness ... Who can fail to see it in…” quote by Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/141/calvin-coolidge-764_body_they-the-founding-fathers-were-intent-up_337118.jpg)
![“The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.” quote by William O. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/60f/william-o-douglas-2931_alaska_the-arctic-has-a-call-that-is-compelling_2192460.jpg)
