There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty. — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster… — Phillip Connors Copy Share Image
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — Michael Pollan 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
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.” — Jake Ducey Copy Share Image
“One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn’t on a checklist.” — Kat Kruger 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
