I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“God has given us the Spirit of boldness, so that even in the wilderness we can remain dauntless.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
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
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
“it seems to me that this itself was the disaster I foresaw, a common enough disaster for most infants these days: that… — Yaa Gyasi 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 need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth… — Luther Standing Bear 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
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a… — Stewart Edward White Copy Share Image
Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Looking out the window of a large women's monastery after Divine Liturgy, my friend saw a few nuns walking toward the woods… — Constantina R. Palmer 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
The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what… — Sylvia Dolson Copy Share Image
All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I'm equally happy bouncing across the African savannah in an old Land Rover as I am staying in a luxury resort in… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness, — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
