A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten. — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a… — Michael Catt Copy Share Image
“I always thought that 'wilderness' was somewhere where God wasn't. It took me a long time to learn that 'wilderness' is a… — Sylvia Dickey Smith Copy Share Image
We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in. — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and… — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
“In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“...I found myself questioning many assumptions about 'nature' and 'wilderness' that were common in conservation at the time. Were all introduced species… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
“Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the kings!” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such… — David Rains Wallace Copy Share Image
“Cry out in the wilderness with a voice that's not heard. Speak boldly in Christ though you won't say a word.” — R'chelle Cyrus Copy Share Image
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls... — John Muir Copy Share Image
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
