A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water,… — Anne Cushman Copy Share Image
What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed… — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and… — Robert MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“To be in touch with wilderness is to have stepped past the proud cattle of the field and wandered far from the… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The trouble with wilderness is that it quietly expresses and reproduces the very values its devotees seek to reject. The flight from… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
I am actually looking most forward to seeing the country again. It's a wonderful town and the wilderness around there is beautiful.… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“The search party became zombie silhouettes in shafts of early-morning light, yawning, despondent, and halfway home when a boy’s scream pierced the… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and… — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the… — Alice Valdal Copy Share Image
“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish… — Michael Basman Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
![“We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and…” quote by Howard Zahniser](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0cd/howard-zahniser-54797_benefits_we-deeply-need-the-humility-to-know-ours_1961140.jpg)
