“[Wild animals], and the beautiful landscapes that sustain them...possess a value and a virtue regardless of our dwindling connection with them. It… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“Actually, the eloquence of the wilderness is not a pattern for human eloquence. There is no hardier fool than whoever shouts, "The… — Renny Russell Copy Share Image
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a… — Stewart Edward White Copy Share Image
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from… — Michael Brune Copy Share Image
“She was right. The purebred girls were making mistakes on purpose, in order to give us an advantage. 'King me,' I growled,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Looking out the window of a large women's monastery after Divine Liturgy, my friend saw a few nuns walking toward the woods… — Constantina R. Palmer Copy Share Image
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste… — Lady Bird Johnson 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
The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Nature is not what you might call predictable. And it’s not forgiving. It doesn’t care about us. The lightning is gonna go… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness?… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Every morning in the middle of nowhere, without electricity or anyone to impress, I'd take great care in picking out my outfit… — Mireya Mayor Copy Share Image
“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft… — Chief Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I think the Democratic Party is firmly in the wilderness right now and doesn't know exactly what to do. We talk about… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones.… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“In the dry places, men begin to dream, wrote Wright Morris, who grew up north of here, in Nebraska. Where rivers run… — Julene Bair Copy Share Image
We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
![“[Wild animals], and the beautiful landscapes that sustain them...possess a value and a virtue regardless of our dwindling connection with them. It seems that there is a virtue and a wisdom in keeping some things beyond our reach: that the protection of wilderness itself is imperative... We have…” quote by Rick Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/974/rick-bass-14544_animals_wild-animals-and-the-beautiful-landscape_1363106.jpg)
![“When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will…” quote by Roger Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4bf/roger-williams-11064_broke_when-they-the-church-have-opened-a-gap-i_3180844.jpg)
