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
How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“... there's a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far,… — Rob Schultheis Copy Share Image
Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The LORD your God who goes before you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“The nation’s forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United… — Marybeth Lorbiecki Copy Share Image
To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress… — Carl Pope Copy Share Image
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness,… — Edward Abbey 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
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust 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
Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave… — David Ehrenfeld Copy Share Image
“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession,… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept.… — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective.… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“Let the glory of the empire goes to the crow. Just want to retire after twenty-five years of brawl. Give me a… — Asvoria K Copy Share Image
“When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-came out to fight the fire… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone.… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
“She wondered if she was the only person trying not to imagine what death-by-bear looked like. Would bears pick the bones white?… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in… — T. K. Whipple Copy Share Image
Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to wilderness in any sense. Which is why I'm attracted to New York in a way, because I feel like… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
