Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area… — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of… — Joseph Conrad 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 took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired… — Calvin Coolidge 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
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
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls... — John Muir Copy Share Image
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and… — Immanuel Kant 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
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
The Promised Land, for many people, though, is something that's far off in the future. People are saved, but they don't feel… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The wilderness rescued me. I have been shaped by my experiences in the great outdoors. Feeling comfortable in the wild gave me… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness… — Margaret Murie Copy Share Image
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image