Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly;… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
There's a point in me where it's beyond sad, seeing the state of the world today. It's so screwed up. It's terrible,… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Oh my goodness, I hate camping. I am like Frida times 1,000. I have always been attracted to wilderness stories, à la… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“Why this cult of wilderness? Why the surly hatred of progress and development, the churlish resistance to all popular improvements? Very well,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Having grown up in those woods, Walker knew that for many people, the wilderness did not represent an otherworldly sanctum of ‘biodiversity,’… — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness'… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
“Their minds told them this life was not their own. This life was not the one designed for this body and soul.… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“...William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I… — Mwai Kibaki Copy Share Image
There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
“This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“fighting off many creatures that you’ve probably read about in your stories: giant boars, bears, wyverns, phoenixes, cows. In the wilderness, everything… — Virlyce Copy Share Image
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area… — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness - an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
