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title: "1 Seen Wilderness Quotes By Thomas Cole"
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> [None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/none-know-how-often-the-hand-of-god-is-seen-in-a-wilderness-but-them/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

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## More by Thomas Cole

> [The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/the-sky-is-the-soul-of-all-scenery-it-makes-the-earth-lovely-at/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/the-ills-of-discrimination-are-still-with-us-we-have-to-continue-the/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/now-nature-is-not-at-variance-with-art-nor-art-with-nature-they-being/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/nothing-is-invented-and-brought-to-perfection-all-at-once/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/nature-is-still-predominant-and-there-are-those-who-regret-that-with/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/overall-rocks-wood-and-water-brooded-the-spirit-of-repose-and-the/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/and-rural-nature-is-full-of-the-same-quickening-spirit-it-is-in-fact/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/none-know-how-often-the-hand-of-god-is-seen-in-a-wilderness-but-them/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/i-never-succeed-in-painting-scenes-however-beautiful-immediately-upon/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/amid-those-scenes-of-solitude-the-mind-is-cast-into-the-contemplation/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/to-walk-with-nature-as-a-poet-is-the-necessary-condition-of-a-perfect/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [“Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/those-scenes-of-solitude-from-which-the-hand-of-nature-have-never/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/it-was-not-that-the-jagged-precipices-were-lofty-that-the-encircling/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/it-is-the-sky-that-makes-the-earth-so-lovely-at-sunrise-and-so/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

> [If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cole/if-i-live-to-be-old-enough-i-may-sit-down-under-some-bush-the-last/)

[Thomas Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cole/)

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