The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place… — William Ashworth Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness… — Wallace Stegner 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
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
“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
Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — Edward Abbey 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
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. — Bible Copy Share Image
Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we… — Frederick Buechner 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
One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled… — Ambrose Bierce 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
