The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Inversnaid This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam Flutes… — Gerald Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
When I was in high school... I loved the outdoors, and I was introduced to wilderness camping. I was in a little… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Wilderness travel can be extremely taxing and dangerous. You can fall into a crevasse, flip your kayak, lose your way, become hypothermic,… — Barry López Copy Share Image
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
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
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“She’d had unsettling dreams like this. 'I’m wandering through Miryoku, but it’s not Miryoku. Or it is, but it’s been abandoned and… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
“Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is… — Wendell Berry 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
We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections,… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are whithered before… — George W. Sears Nessmuk Copy Share Image
