Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses. — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it. — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
“[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance… — Linn Thomas Copy Share Image
It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“The world is alive, Ted. Things are constantly in flux. Species are winning, losing, rising, falling, taking over, being pushed back. Merely… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death… — Clyde Butcher Copy Share Image
Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“James hoped the newsletter would garner support from Bahana, or white people, to stop a town well that the Bureau of Indian… — Julene Bair Copy Share Image
Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Many people just sit behind their steering wheel, scared to venture into the wilderness.” — Keith Foskett Copy Share Image
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear...you are the determining… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.” — Susan Oakey-Baker Copy Share Image
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“We're not exactly going to the wilderness, Shane. You don't have to take everything. There are vending machines.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
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