Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in… — George Critchlow Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has… — Aldo Leopold 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
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair.” — Peter Geye Copy Share Image
America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces. — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be… — Horace Kephart Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land. — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go… This is the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“We fall asleep as close as ears of wheat: chest to back, fingers entwined. I kiss the skin at the nape of… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
“As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness… — Margaret Murie Copy Share Image
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I have spent time in many of the world's popular wilderness locations and I would say Nepal should be proud. It is… — Ben Fogle 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
“I suspect the wilderness is a permanent home for me, which is both happy and hard.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
![“The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.” quote by William O. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60f/william-o-douglas-2931_alaska_the-arctic-has-a-call-that-is-compelling_2192460.jpg)
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