It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“God has given us the Spirit of boldness, so that even in the wilderness, we can be dauntless.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
“Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms… — Lewis Thomas 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
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image