“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens --… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver 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
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“I'm quite happy being male. The notion of being female scares me to death." "Why?" "I'd have to put up with men.” — David Robbins Copy Share Image
If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it… — Joseph Conrad 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
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present.… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image