One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush. — William Shakespeare 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
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.” — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
“God is in the darkness and God is in the wilderness. I now know that by personal experience.” — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard,… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness.… — E. Urner Goodman Copy Share Image
Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally,… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
“I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance; within… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the… — John Muir 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
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
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
Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image