Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
“One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.” — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things:… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“On the bus was an old lady from Boston, and when she learned what I was going to do, she was horrified… — Jacob Clifford Moomaw Copy Share Image
Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary,… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld.… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
“Do not harbour any bitterness, it will lead you straight into the wilderness.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“Wilderness is good, it gives me perspective. I get small again, the ego deflates.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
