“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold 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
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By 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
“the wilderness should be preserved for political reasons. We may need it someday not only as a refuge from excessive industrialism but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
“None of us have ever left the borders of this forest, we do not know the way out of it. And to… — Nikola Stefan Copy Share Image
It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order.… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that someday our cities would open up more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“When you’re in the wild, there’s nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens --… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded… — T. H. Watkins Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much… — James Nestor 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
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
“I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“self-reliant hero. As soon as he graduates college, he gives away all of his savings and wanders the wild, seeking adventure and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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