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
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from… — Hubert H. Humphrey 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
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded… — Aldo Leopold 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
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
The first television show I did was a production called 'The Pacific,' which was this huge HBO series with an insane budget… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.… — Peter Matthiessen 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
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the… — Erik Pevernagie 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
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is… — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young,… — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the… — Mencius Copy Share Image
There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their… — Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of… — Melvin B. Tolson 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
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