America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“There is a silence in the imminence of animals and also in the echo of their noise, but the dread silence is… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I… — Aldo Leopold 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
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He… — Brad Gooch Copy Share Image
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us. — Stephen Harper 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
Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness, — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
