My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.” — E'yen A. Gardner Copy Share Image
“Those who choose murmuring as their lifestyle will spend their lifetimes in the wilderness!” — James McDonald Copy Share Image
“The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“I am nothing to you. You say I am wilderness. I am. Is that a tremble on your mouth, in your eye?… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
“It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over. 6.” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Connecting with the wilderness allows us to live in the flow of a meaningful, joyful life. Embracing this state of connectedness or… — Sylvia Dolson Copy Share Image
A lot of things drew me to Texas. One is the wilderness: It's pretty close to wide open spaces, which I didn't… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness is Adophe Monod at his best. It is a masterpiece, bringing together profound comfort, realistic understanding, practical… — Joel Beeke 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
Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Only in the late eighteenth century, with Burke and his theory of the sublime, Wordsworth and his mountains, Rousseau and his thoughts… — Hugh Thomson 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
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
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
“I was spun into gold ropes, silk petals and rebuilt in it I found more of Him in it And me in… — Maquita Donyel Irvin 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
“It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.” — Daniel J. Rice 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
I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way.… — Anne Lamott 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
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
“One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our… — Nelson Mandela 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
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
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
